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Changing concepts of endocardial fibroelastosis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2010

Paul R. Lurie
Paul R. Lurie*
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Department of Pediatrics, Albany Medical College, New York, United States of America
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Correspondence to: P. R. Lurie, Department of Pediatrics, Albany Medical College, 334 State Street, Albany NY, 12210, United States of America. Tel: +518 436 0903; E-mail: plurie1@verizon.net
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Abstract

Endocardial fibroelastosis is not a disease but a reaction of the endocardium. I review the history of the term with emphasis on the gradual understanding of the many causes of this reaction. I include a comprehensive list of diseases or other cardiac stresses that authors have reported in association, and I try to explain the mechanism of the reaction. Although endocardial fibroelastosis is rare today, I issue a warning of a possible epidemic recrudescence of some of the associated diseases. My hope is for nosologic purity, therefore that outworn but surviving concepts will be firmly rejected.

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Endocardial fibroelastosismechanismcardiomyopathy

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Cardiology in the Young , Volume 20 , Issue 2 , April 2010 , pp. 115 - 123
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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