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Extensive fibrotic wrapping of the heart: a rare echocardiographic diagnosis

BACKGROUND: Fibrosing mediastinitis (FM) is considered a benign disease, but it can be fatal if progression leads to compression of the hilum of the lungs or invasion of the heart. Echocardiographic reports of this disease are very rare. CASE PRESENTATION: We present a 14-year-old male patient whose...

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Autores principales: Jiang, Wei, Xu, Lili, Guo, Xiaojuan, Li, Yidan, Lv, Xiuzhang
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9310488/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35879720
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12947-022-00289-y