IDIOPATHIC RESTRICTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY WITH DIFFUSE PERIMYOCYTIC FIBROSIS - A RARE OBSERVATION

Authors
SUZUKI T OHTAKI E MURAI T IMAI M KAWAI S KITAOKA M KITAHARA K OKADA R SUZUKI S
Citation
T. Suzuki et al., IDIOPATHIC RESTRICTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY WITH DIFFUSE PERIMYOCYTIC FIBROSIS - A RARE OBSERVATION, Japanese Circulation Journal, 61(3), 1997, pp. 272-274
Citations number
6
Categorie Soggetti
Peripheal Vascular Diseas
Journal title
Japanese Circulation Journal → ACNP
ISSN journal
00471828
Volume
61
Issue
3
Year of publication
1997
Pages
272 - 274
Database
ISI
SICI code
0047-1828(1997)61:3<272:IRCWDP>2.0.ZU;2-M
Abstract
Idiopathic restrictive cardiomyopathy (RCM) is rare. Even today little is understood of its etiology or underlying mechanisms, and definitiv e diagnostic criteria are lacking. In this report, we describe a case of idiopathic RCM in a young Japanese woman who died while awaiting ca rdiac transplantation during the 5-year course of the disease. Rare pa thologic findings of diffuse perimyocytic fibrosis were revealed at au topsy.