ADULT ENDOCARDIAL FIBROELASTOSIS: REPORT OF A CASE MIMICKING MITRAL STENOSIS
Authors: J B HUDSON, J F WHITCOMB, W E JUDSON, N H BOYER
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1959)

Case Reports1 July 1959ADULT ENDOCARDIAL FIBROELASTOSIS: REPORT OF A CASE MIMICKING MITRAL STENOSISJAMES B. HUDSON, M.D., JOHN F. WHITCOMB, M.D., WALTER E. JUDSON, M.D., NORMAN H. BOYER, M.D., F.A.C.P.JAMES B. HUDSON, M.D., JOHN F. WHITCOMB, M.D., WALTER E. JUDSON, M.D., NORMAN H. BOYER, M.D., F.A.C.P.Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-51-1-151 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptEndocardial thickening by excessive fibrous and elastic tissue proliferation in infants and young children with enlargement of the heart and congestive failure is now a fairly well recognized clinical entity.The concept of prenatal infection as an important cause of such cardiac anomalies was introduced by Kreysig,1and the etiologic relationship of "fetal endocarditis" to this endocardial thickening was not seriously questioned until a review by Pototschnig2suggested that the fibroelastic tissue overgrowth was a noninflammatory process. The problem was carefully investigated by Gross,3who concluded that the lesion should be viewed as a disorder of development. Since then it...Bibliography1. 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