[PDF] Top 20 Results of comprehensive diagnostic work-up in ‘idiopathic’ dilated cardiomyopathy

... for diagnostic evaluation of dilated ...unexplained dilated cardio- myopathy, and in particular the value of a comprehensive, multimodality work-up, has not been systematically ... See full document

... Methodology. The clinical profile and course of 62 Finnish children and adolescents (median age, 13 months; range, 1 day to 20 years) with IDCM in 1980 to 1991 were evaluated to detect factors that might predict outcome. ... See full document

... advanced idiopathic DCM ...advanced idiopathic DCM in se- verely dilated left ventricle with an akinetic ...mid-term results in selected patients with ... See full document

... Objectives: Left bundle branch block (LBBB) is commonly associated with heart failure. We evaluated the prevalence and impact of LBBB on left ven- tricular mechanics using 2D strain imaging in patients with ... See full document

... Echocardiography was performed mainly with Vivid 7, and in a few instances E9, ultrasound scanners (GE Vingmed Ultrasound, Horten, Norway). The patients were examined in the lateral recumbent position after > 5 ... See full document

... of dilated cardiomyopathy ...with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (IDC) and to evaluate the correlation between serum Se concentrations and echocardiographic ...concentrations. ... See full document

... to results in study reports from Rupp et ...Better results were observed in subgroups of younger patients and those who received stem cell tran plantation shortly after the onset of the disease, as opposed ... See full document

... rs10927875 is located in an intron of ZBTB17 on chromosome 1p36.2-p36.1. The locus of interest covers approximately 210 kb in a genomic region; exhibits strong LD; and spans several other genes, including SPEN (spen ... See full document

... of idiopathic dilated ...sensitivity up to ...of idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy, as well as 9 of 24 cases (38%) of a wide variety of other cardiac conditions (including normal ... See full document

... The results of the present study suggest a more preserved cardiac autonomic nervous tone in IDC patients with better exercise ...The results also suggest that impaired cardiac autonomic control is linked ... See full document

... The situation in CD, as discussed by Papadopoulos et al., is somewhat different. As with thyroid disease but not type 1 diabetes, it is possible to verify the diagnosis by a biopsy of the affected tissue. In active CD, ... See full document

... restrictive cardiomyopathy or IDCM (Goldfarb et ...develop cardiomyopathy with the degeneration of cardiomyocytes, fibrosis and ultrastructural defects in the cardiac muscle which reduce animals’ life spam ... See full document

... Carefully designed studies of larger FDC families (by genetic linkage analysis and other methods) have impli- cated 29 chromosomal loci as containing FDC genes. Sev- eral different genes at these loci have been ... See full document

... Statistics. Data are given as mean plus or minus SEM. Functional assays (cAMP, PKA) were analyzed by two-factor ANOVA. Signifi- cance between the treatment groups was analyzed by Scheffé F test. Comparisons between the ... See full document

... Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is the most common inheritable cardiac disorder, which is characterized by abnormal thickening of the left ventricular ... See full document

... Incubation of autoantibodies with membrane resulted not only in a decrease in the maximal binding sites (Bmax) but also in an increase in Kd of radioligand binding in a concentration- dependent manner. This suggests a ... See full document

... DCM mutations also occur in the sarcomere’s thick filament (16). MYH7 and MYBPC3 mutations are the most common causes of HCM, and HCM may progress to DCM. However, there are thick filament mutations that have no HCM ... See full document

... Peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM) is a form of dilated cardiomyopathy of unclear etiology affecting women without preexisting heart disease during the last month of pregnancy or during the first 5 ... See full document

... Barth syndrome (Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man [OMIM] 302060) is an ultra-rare, infantile-onset, X-linked recessive mitochondrial disorder (MID), primarily affecting males, due to variants in a nuclear DNA-located ... See full document

... The results of the current case illus- trate that rod-like structures may be rare in the heart compared with skel- etal muscle. At the ultrastructural level, abnormal cardiomyocytes showed an accumulation of ... See full document