[Endomyocardial fibrosis (its clinico-echocardiographic characteristics)].

To compare clinical and echocardiographic features in patients with restrictive cardiomyopathy (RCMP), 15 patients (9 males and 6 females, mean age 34.93 +/- 1.03 years, duration of the disease 9 +/- 4.2 months) were examined using complete echocardiographic and doppler echocardiographic investigation in impulse regimen. Endomyocardial fibrosis was not obvious clinically, but should be suspected in dyspnea upon a weak exercise, undue fatiguability, tachycardia in normal arterial pressure and size of the heart. Echocardiographic indications, on the contrary, were rather specific. Endomyocardial fibrosis is characterized by diminished ventricular cavities, thickening of the endocardium and subvalvular structures, changed shape of ventricular cavity, echo-CG signs of passive pulmonary hypertension, diastolic dysfunction of the left and right ventricles.