Endocardial Fibroelastosis Associated with Hypoplasia of the Right Coronary Artery in an Adult

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Abstract
ALTHOUGH endocardial fibroelastosis is well recognized as an infrequent but distinctive type of congenital heart disease in infants, a similar lesion is rare in adults. When it is found in an adolescent or young adult the suspicion arises that the patient is a late survivor of the infantile form of the disease. However, when the lesion is found in someone who was in good health for the first five decades of life, it is likely that the disease, or some of its causative factors, was acquired. In the present case, which involved a sexagenarian, there was also hypoplasia of . . .