(1) Objective To evaluate the diagnostic value of endomyocardial biopsy (EMB) for endomyocardial fibrosis (EMF), and to investigate the relationship between Coxsackie virus B (CVB) and EMF.

(2) Background Endomyocardial biopsy is the standard method of monitoring for rejection in recipients a cardiac transplant.

(3) Restrictive cardiomyopathy may result from either myocardial or endomyocardial diseases.

(4) Objective To investigate the value of imaging diagnosis of endomyocardial fibrosis ( EMF ).

(5) Gene - expression profiling of peripheral - blood specimens has been shown to correlate with the results of endomyocardial biopsy.

(6) I believe that the diagnostic procedure in this case was a right ventricular endomyocardial biopsy.