ENDOCARDIAL FIBRO-ELASTOSIS WITH MARKED CARDIAC ENLARGEMENT AND FAILURE IN A MAN WHO DIED AT THE AGE OF 71 AFTER 15 YEARS OF ANGINA PECTORIS AND TWO YEARS OF CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE
Authors: P D WHITE, R H FENNELL
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1954)

Case Reports1 August 1954ENDOCARDIAL FIBRO-ELASTOSIS WITH MARKED CARDIAC ENLARGEMENT AND FAILURE IN A MAN WHO DIED AT THE AGE OF 71 AFTER 15 YEARS OF ANGINA PECTORIS AND TWO YEARS OF CONGESTIVE HEART FAILUREPAUL D. WHITE, M.D., F.A.C.P., ROBERT H. FENNELL JR., M.D.PAUL D. WHITE, M.D., F.A.C.P., ROBERT H. FENNELL JR., M.D.Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-41-2-333 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptEndomyocardial fibro-elastosis has become recognized as an important cardiovascular disease.1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Its cause is still obscure but it has been found at autopsy in a good many individuals throughout the world. Most of these cases on record are infants, children or young adults. The presence of this condition in an old man followed clinically for many years, constitutes at present almost a unique variation of this condition, and justifies this report.CASE REPORTMr. D. C. H. came to consult one of us (P. D. W.) in August, 1923, at the age of 41 years. He...Bibliography1. Gowing NF: Congenital fibro-elastosis of endocardium, J. Path. and Bact. 65: 13, 1953. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar2. BlumbergLyon RWRA: Endocardial sclerosis, Am. J. Dis. Child. 84: 291, 1952. Google Scholar3. Letteer CR: Endocardial fibroelastosis, Ann. Int. Med. 38: 573, 1953. LinkGoogle Scholar4. BeckerChatgidakisvan Lingen BJCBB: Cardiovascular collagenosis with parietal endocardial thrombosis. A clinicopathologic study of forty cases, Circulation 7: 345, 1953. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar5. ThomasRandallCastlemanBland WARVBEF: Heart disease of obscure etiology with special reference to endocardial fibroelastosis in the adult. A study of 20 autopsied cases, in preparation, 1953. Google Scholar6. AverillRandallJoffeWhite JHRVEPD: Congestive heart failure with endocardial fibroelastosis in siblings, in press, 1953. Google Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: Boston, Massachusetts*Received for publication November 28, 1953.Comments on this case were made at the Clinicopathological Conference at the Massachusetts General Hospital on August 13, 1953, and were published in the New England J. Med. 249: 734 (Oct. 29) 1953. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byCase 9-1972Case 49-1967Primary Myocardial DiseaseClassification and differential diagnosis of the myocardiopathiesMITRAL INSUFFICIENCY IN INFANTS, CHILDREN, AND ADOLESCENTSPrimary Myocardial Disease* *Presented at the 27th Annual Meeting, American College of Chest Physicians, New York City, June 22-26, 1961.From the Cardiac Laboratory, Cincinnati General Hospital and Cincinnati Veterans Hospital and the Department of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine.This investigative work was supported in part by U. S. Public Health Service Grant HTS-5445.Case 32-1962Case 7-1961Adult Endocardial Fibroelastosis Associated with Dextrocardia and Situs InversusIdiopathic cardiac hypertrophy of long durationProgressive muscular dystrophy with 1:1 atrial flutterErkrankungen des EndokardENDOCARDIAL FIBRO-ELASTOSIS IN ADOLESCENTS AND ADULTSDie Endokard-FibroelastoseZur Fibroelastosis endocardica unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Diagnose intra vitamCase 43501Idiopathic Myocardial Failure in the Last Trimester of Pregnancy and the PuerperiumCase 43111The Clinical Problem of Adiposity of the Heart and Cardiac Enlargement of Undetermined EtiologyManagement of the Pregnant Patient with Cardiac DiseaseCase 41082SANATORIACANCER OF THE LUNGENDOCARDIAL FIBROSIS 1 August 1954Volume 41, Issue 2Page: 333-342KeywordsAnginaAutopsyChildrenHeart failureInfantsYoung adults ePublished: 1 December 2008 Issue Published: 1 August 1954 PDF downloadLoading ...