Tapioca Cardiomyopathy: Curse of Cassava Endomyocardial Fibrosis

Tropical endomyocardial fibrosis is a rare entity in the present era. Restrictive cardiomyopathy due to tapioca consumption is very rare, although it has been reported in India, especially in state of Kerala. We report a rare case of restrictive cardiomyopathy secondary to tapioca consumption in a 2...

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Autores principales: Anandan, Prem Krishna, Shukkarbhai, Patel Jigarkumar, George, Jimmy, Bhatt, Prabhavathi, Manjunath, Cholenahally Nanjappa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elmer Press 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5295540/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28197237
http://dx.doi.org/10.14740/cr394w
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author Anandan, Prem Krishna
Shukkarbhai, Patel Jigarkumar
George, Jimmy
Bhatt, Prabhavathi
Manjunath, Cholenahally Nanjappa
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description Tropical endomyocardial fibrosis is a rare entity in the present era. Restrictive cardiomyopathy due to tapioca consumption is very rare, although it has been reported in India, especially in state of Kerala. We report a rare case of restrictive cardiomyopathy secondary to tapioca consumption in a 20-year-old male patient.
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spelling pubmed-52955402017-02-14 Tapioca Cardiomyopathy: Curse of Cassava Endomyocardial Fibrosis Anandan, Prem Krishna Shukkarbhai, Patel Jigarkumar George, Jimmy Bhatt, Prabhavathi Manjunath, Cholenahally Nanjappa Cardiol Res Case Report Tropical endomyocardial fibrosis is a rare entity in the present era. Restrictive cardiomyopathy due to tapioca consumption is very rare, although it has been reported in India, especially in state of Kerala. We report a rare case of restrictive cardiomyopathy secondary to tapioca consumption in a 20-year-old male patient. Elmer Press 2015-04 2015-04-06 /pmc/articles/PMC5295540/ /pubmed/28197237 http://dx.doi.org/10.14740/cr394w Text en Copyright 2015, Anandan et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Anandan, Prem Krishna
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George, Jimmy
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Manjunath, Cholenahally Nanjappa
Tapioca Cardiomyopathy: Curse of Cassava Endomyocardial Fibrosis
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title_short Tapioca Cardiomyopathy: Curse of Cassava Endomyocardial Fibrosis
title_sort tapioca cardiomyopathy: curse of cassava endomyocardial fibrosis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5295540/
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