Multimodality Imaging and Pathologic Assessment in an Adult with Endocardial Fibroelastosis

Ahmed Sobieh; Michael A Bolen; E Rene Rodriguez; Carmela D Tan; L Leonardo Rodriquez; Rahul D Renapurkar

doi:10.1016/j.case.2017.05.005

Multimodality Imaging and Pathologic Assessment in an Adult with Endocardial Fibroelastosis

CASE (Phila). 2017 Aug 3;1(5):176-178. doi: 10.1016/j.case.2017.05.005. eCollection 2017 Oct.

Authors

Ahmed Sobieh¹, Michael A Bolen^{1

2}, E Rene Rodriguez³, Carmela D Tan³, L Leonardo Rodriquez^{4

5}, Rahul D Renapurkar^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Cardiovascular Imaging Laboratory, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio.
² Thoracic Imaging, Imaging Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio.
³ Department of Pathology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio.
⁴ Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio.
⁵ Heart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland, Ohio.

Abstract

•The authors report a patient with biopsy-proven adult endocardial fibroelastosis.•Transthoracic echocardiography revealed diffuse coarse endocardial calcifications.•Native CT of the chest revealed LV endocardial calcifications.

Keywords: Adult cardiomyopathy; Adult endocardial fibroelastosis; Multimodality imaging.

Publication types

Case Reports