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Cardiomyopathies: An Overview [PDF]
International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2021 Background: Cardiomyopathies are a heterogeneous group of pathologies characterized by structural and functional alterations of the heart. Aims: The purpose of this narrative review is to focus on the most important cardiomyopathies and their ...
T. Ciarambino +3 more
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Infiltrative Cardiomyopathies [PDF]
Clinical Medicine Insights: Cardiology, 2015 Infiltrative cardiomyopathies can result from a wide spectrum of both inherited and acquired conditions with varying systemic manifestations. They portend an adverse prognosis, with only a few exceptions (ie, glycogen storage disease), where early ...
David Bejar +3 more
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Clinical Medicine Insights: Cardiology, 2015 Cardiomyopathies (CMs) have many etiological factors that can result in severe structural and functional dysregulation. Fortunately, there are several potentially reversible CMs that are known to improve when the root etiological factor is addressed.
Harsh Patel +4 more
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Stress Cardiomyopathy (Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy) [PDF]
Clinical medicine. Cardiology, 2009 Background Due to the rise in the number of reports of stress cardiomyopathy in the literature, awareness of this condition is increasing. Although different names have been used to describe this condition, the similarities in clinical, electrocardiographic, echocardiographic and angiographic features suggest that they represent the same spectrum of ...
Samer Khouri, Naser Imran
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Takotsubo is not a cardiomyopathy [PDF]
International Journal of Cardiology, 2018 Unraveling the mechanisms underlying Takotsubo (TTS) leads to question the current inclusion of the condition within the spectrum of cardiomyopathies. Indeed, the clinical presentation and pathophysiology of TTS clearly differ from cardiomyopathies, i.e.
Francesco Pelliccia +5 more
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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2021 Background: The prevalence of cardiac amyloidosis (CA) is unknown.Aims and Methods: We sought to (a) determine the prevalence of CA in unselected patients ≥75 years undergoing autopsy, (b) characterize cardiological profiles of CA and non-CA patients by ...
Aldostefano Porcari +6 more
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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2021 Background: Endogenous Cushing's syndrome (CS), also called hypercortisolism, leads to a significant increase in mortality due to excessive cortisol production, which is mainly due to cardiovascular disease. CS complicated with cardiomyopathies, which is
Sisi Miao +12 more
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Clinical application of CMR in cardiomyopathies: evolving concepts and techniques
Heart Failure Reviews, 2022 Cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) has become an essential tool for the evaluation of patients affected or at risk of developing cardiomyopathies (CMPs).
M. Merlo +23 more
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Myosin modulators: emerging approaches for the treatment of cardiomyopathies and heart failure
Journal of Clinical Investigation, 2022 Myosin modulators are a novel class of pharmaceutical agents that are being developed to treat patients with a range of cardiomyopathies. The therapeutic goal of these drugs is to target cardiac myosins directly to modulate contractility and cardiac ...
S. Day, J. Tardiff, E. Ostap
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Non-compaction cardiomyopathy – brief review [PDF]
, 2017 Left ventricular non-compaction cardiomyopathy is a genetic disorder characterized by the presence of two myocardial layers with numerous prominent trabeculations and deep inter-trabecular recesses that communicate with the ventricular cavity.
Berceanu, Mihaela +7 more
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