title: A case of left ventricular endomyocardial fibrosis.
abstract: The patient was a 29-year-old woman. When she consulted a local physician with chief complaints of fever and fatigue of the extremities, cerebral infarction was detected on MRI, in addition to abnormalities found on ECG. Ultrasonic cardiography revealed the presence of a tumor in the left ventricle. Therefore, tumorectomy and endocardectomy were performed under extracorporeal circulation based on a diagnosis of cardiac tumor. Inflammatory cell infiltration into the ventricular wall was pathologically confirmed, and eosinophilia was observed preoperatively. Therefore, the patient was diagnosed as having endomyocardial fibrosis, which is rarely observed in Japan. The postoperative course of this patient was satisfactory, and the eosinophil count was normalized postoperatively. At present, this patient is being followed at the outpatient clinic.
authors.affiliation: Second Department of Surgery, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: Tetsuya
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Niino
authors.forename: Motomi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Shiono
authors.forename: Tomonori
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yamamoto
authors.forename: Tatsuya
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Inoue
authors.forename: Hiroyuki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hirose
authors.forename: Akira
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Saito
authors.forename: Michio
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Funahasi
authors.forename: Nanao
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Negishi
authors.forename: Yukiyasu
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Sezai
authors.forename: Taku
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Honma
authors.forename: Norimichi
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Nemoto
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004562:Electrocardiography; D004719:Endomyocardial Fibrosis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000601:surgery; D004802:Eosinophilia / Q000175:diagnosis; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan / Q000453:epidemiology; D009206:Myocardium / Q000473:pathology; D014463:Ultrasonography