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- Title
Endomyocardial fibrosis of the right ventricle: A case report of successful surgery.
- Authors
Negri, Francesco; Fabris, Enrico; Masè, Marco; Vitrella, Giancarlo; Minà, Chiara; Turrisi, Marco; Liotta, Rosa; Gentile, Giovanni; Pilato, Michele; Sinagra, Gianfranco; Clemenza, Francesco
- Abstract
<bold>Aims: </bold>The case we report, shows a successful treatment of right ventricle endomyocardial fibrosis.<bold>Materials and Methods: </bold>Surgical therapy by endocardial decortication seems to be beneficial for many patients with advanced disease who are in functional-therapeutic class III or IV. The operative mortality rate is high, but successful surgery has a clear benefit on symptoms and seems to favourably affect survival as well.
- Subjects
FIBROSIS; SURGERY; HEART failure
- Publication
Journal of Cardiac Surgery, 2020, Vol 35, Issue 2, p460
- ISSN
0886-0440
- Publication type
case study
- DOI
10.1111/jocs.14378