[Right ventricular endomyocardial fibrosis].
The clinical course, non-invasive and invasive diagnostic findings from a 50-year-old patient with endomyocardial fibrosis are reported. The patient died in cardiogenic shock. In Europe, endomyocardial fibrosis is a rare event. An exclusively right ventricular involvement is a seldom manifestation. The clinical, echocardiographic and computed tomographic features are diagnostic; therefore a satisfactory differentiation from other cardiac disorders with restrictive hemodynamic signs is possible. An echodense mass as cavity obliteration, with predominantly apical localization, was present at echocardiography; the computed tomography showed a hypodense area instead of the right ventricular cavity.
Stierle
U
U
Medizinische Universität zu Lübeck.
Schwarting
K
K
Rinast
E
E
Spicher
V
V
Sheikhzadeh
A
A
D004452:Echocardiography; D004719:Endomyocardial Fibrosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
Rechtsventrikuläre Endomyokardfibrose.