Bilharzial cor pulmonale

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Bilharzial cor pulmonale
Specialty Cardiology, parasitology

Bilharzial cor pulmonale is the condition of right sided heart failure secondary to fibrosis and sclerosis of the pulmonary artery branches. It results from shifting of the Schistosoma haematobium ova from the pelvic and vesical plexus to the pulmonary artery branches where they settle and produce granuloma and fibrosis. [1] This was identified by Theodor Bilharz, a German surgeon working in Cairo in 1851. [2]

This condition leads to pulmonary hypertension, right ventricular hypertrophy and failure. [3] [4]

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References

  1. ↑ "Bilharzial cor pulmonale: A clinicopathologic report of two cases". American Heart Journal. 45: 190–200. doi:10.1016/0002-8703(53)90179-3.
  2. ↑ Tan, S. Y.; Ahana, A. (March 2007). "Theodor Bilharz (1825-1862): discoverer of schistosomiasis". Singapore Medical Journal. 48 (3): 184–185. ISSN   2737-5935. PMID   17342284.
  3. ↑ GIRGIS B (1952). "Pulmonary heart disease due to Bilharzia: The bilharzial cor pulmonale: A clinical study of twenty cases". American Heart Journal. 43 (4): 606–614. doi:10.1016/0002-8703(52)90121-X. PMID   14914715.
  4. ↑ Electrocardiograms of right ventricular hypertrophy in Bilharzial cor pulmonale. Retrieved 26 December 2016
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