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ReviewNature reviews. Cardiology2025

Endomyocardial fibrosis: recent advances and future therapeutic targets.

Ana O Mocumbi, Viviane Tiemi Hotta, Gene Bukhman, Ntobeko Ntusi, Magdi H Yacoub, Paulo Correia-de-Sá

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Review in Nature reviews. Cardiology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Ana O MocumbiUniversidade Eduardo Mondlane, Campus Universitário, Maputo, Mozambique. ana.mocumbi@uem.ac.mz.
Viviane Tiemi HottaInstituto do Coracao/Hospital das Clinicas HCFMUSP, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Gene BukhmanCenter for Integration Science in Global Health Equity, Divisions of Global Health Equity and Cardiovascular Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Ntobeko NtusiUniversity of Cape Town, Groote Schoor Hospital, Department of Medicine, Cape Town, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0003-2347-7883
Magdi H YacoubDepartment of Surgery, Aswan Heart Centre, Magdi Yacoub Heart Foundation, Aswan, Egypt.ORCID 0000-0001-9070-8245
Paulo Correia-de-SáLaboratório de Farmacologia e Neurobiologia, Departamento de Imuno-Fisiologia e Farmacologia-Centro de Investigação Farmacológica e Inovação Medicamentosa (MedInUP/RISE-Health), Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0002-6114-9189

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Endomyocardial fibrosis, first described >75 years ago, is a cause of restrictive cardiomyopathy with an unclear aetiopathogenesis that is most commonly found in children and adolescents from tropical regions of Africa, Asia and South America. The epidemiological trends of this cardiomyopathy are difficult to ascertain. The characteristic hallmark of endomyocardial fibrosis is ventricular fibrosis that causes diastolic dysfunction and atrioventricular regurgitation. Although advances in medical treatment for heart failure and more tailored surgical techniques to treat the condition have increased survival, the outcomes in affected patients remain poor. A major focus of research is the identification of biomarkers of preclinical disease and new therapeutic targets. Collaborative multidisciplinary research and cross-learning from other fibrotic conditions should impart knowledge and help to improve the survival rates and the quality of life of patients with endomyocardial fibrosis.

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Endomyocardial FibrosisBiomarkersHumansBiomarkers

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