SynthesisPLoS neglected tropical diseases2008
Endomyocardial fibrosis: still a mystery after 60 years.
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- Distribution Patterns and Accumulation Factors of Rare Earth Elements in the Organism of Manchurian Wapiti and Wild Boar in Primorsky Krai, Russian Far East.Biological trace element research · 2026Article
- A Narrative Review on Endomyocardial Fibrosis: Unraveling an Under-Recognized Tropical Heart Disease.Cureus · 2025Review
- Endomyocardial fibrosis: recent advances and future therapeutic targets.Nature reviews. Cardiology · 2025Review
- A cross-sectional investigation of the ophthalmological impact of loiasis in Cameroon, Central Africa.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2025Article
- Endomyocardial Fibrosis Associated With Myocardial Infarction.JACC. Case reports · 2025Article
- Endomyocardial involvement in asymptomatic Latin American migrants with eosinophilia related to helminth infection: A pilot study.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2024Observational
- Eosinophilic Myocarditis: From Bench to Bedside.Biomedicines · 2024Review
- A rare case of hypereosinophilic endomyocardial fibrosis due to PCM1-JAK2.The British journal of cardiology · 2024Article
- Endomyocardial fibrosis: a tragic conundrum or a mere negligence?BMJ case reports · 2023Article
- Focus on Paediatric Restrictive Cardiomyopathy: Frequently Asked Questions.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Left ventricle endomyocardial fibrosis: a case report.Journal of medical case reports · 2023Article
- What We Lost in the Fire: Endemic Tropical Heart Diseases in the Time of COVID-19.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2023Article
- Landscape REE anomalies and the cause of geophagy in wild animals at kudurs (mineral salt licks) in the Sikhote-Alin (Primorsky Krai, Russia).Environmental geochemistry and health · 2022Article
- An unusual tropical endomyocardial fibrosis: a case report.The Pan African medical journal · 2022Article
- Multimodality Imaging in Endomyocardial Fibrosis: An Unusual Etiology of Heart Failure.CASE (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2021Article
- Endomyocardial fibrosis: a restrictive cardiomyopathy in developing countries.Archivos de cardiologia de Mexico · 2021Article
- Pediatric Restrictive Cardiomyopathies.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2021Review
- A Rare Case of Severe Nontropical Isolated Right Ventricular Endomyocardial Fibrosis.JACC. Case reports · 2020Article
- Endomyocardial fibrosis: past, present, and future.Heart failure reviews · 2020Review
- Aetiological and morphological spectrum of cardiomyopathies in French Guiana: a retrospective study.Open heart · 2020Article
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Abstract
The pathologist Jack N. P. Davies identified endomyocardial fibrosis in Uganda in 1947. Since that time, reports of this restrictive cardiomyopathy have come from other parts of tropical Africa, South Asia, and South America. In Kampala, the disease accounts for 20% of heart disease patients referred for echocardiography. We conducted a systematic review of research on the epidemiology and etiology of endomyocardial fibrosis. We relied primarily on articles in the MEDLINE database with either "endomyocardial fibrosis" or "endomyocardial sclerosis" in the title. The volume of publications on endomyocardial fibrosis has declined since the 1980s. Despite several hypotheses regarding cause, no account of the etiology of this disease has yet fully explained its unique geographical distribution.
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