[Constrictive fibrous endocarditis. Surgical treatment].

An anatomo-clinical entity, fibrous constrictive endocarditis can betreated srugically, and we carried out this procedure for the first time in 1971, since when we have used it seven times; it consists of an internal stripping of one or both centricles, with removal of one or both the mitral and tricuspid valves. The results were encouraging in the first two cases, and so good in the succeeding ones that this endocardial resection could be put forward as the treatment of choice for a condition whose aetiology is still unclear.