Left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) improvement is the cornerstone of LV reverse remodelling. It prognosticates heart failure with reduced (HFrEF). There limited data on clinical factors that predict LVEF among non-ischemic cardiomyopathy (NICM) patients in Malaysia.

Treatment of ischemic cardiomyopathy caused by myocardial infarction (MI) using mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) transplantation is a widely researched field, with promising clinical application. However, the low survival rate of transplanted cells has a severe impact on treatment outcome. Currently, research is focused on investigating the strategy of combining genetic engineering, tissue engineeri...

Background Patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy have an increased risk for ventricular arrhythmia, since myocardial infarction can be the substrate for re-entrant arrhythmias. Contrast-enhanced cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) has proven to reliably quantify myocardial infarction. Aim of our study was to evaluate correlations between functional and contrast-enhanced CMR findings and sp...

Chronic hepatitis C can be associated with extrahepatic manifestations; thus, we explored the association of this viral infection with dilated cardiomyopathy in a group of sixty-three patients with a cardiac ejection fraction of less than 40% determined by an echocardiogram in a prospective study. Two of the forty-one patients with non-ischemic cardiomyopathy (4.8%) had serum antibodies to the ...

Background In patients newly diagnosed with heart failure, coronary angiography is the current gold standard in differentiating underlying coronary artery disease and non-ischemic cardiomyopathy. However, CMR is emerging as an attractive alternative that can provide substantially more diagnostic information with its multiple sequences, while also demonstrating a superior safety profile. In this...

Ischemic cardiomyopathy is the most common cause of heart failure in the United States.1 This advanced form of coronary artery disease is marked by diffuse myocardial damage, left ventricular remodeling, and often functional ischemic mitral regurgitation (MR).2 Whether moderate functional ischemic MR in patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy should be addressed with mitral valve repair at the ti...

A 58-year-old woman with ischemic cardiomyopathy and aortic valve stenosis, underwent aortic valve replacement and simultaneous endoventricular circulatory patch plasty (Dor operation). She underwent coronary artery bypass grafting for severe triple vessel disease 10 years ago. Recently she started to show severe congestive heart failure. Aortic valve stenosis with pressure gradient of 85-mmHg ...

Cardiac involvement is a rare complication with thromboangiitis obliterans (TAO). We report a 29-year-old man with TAO accompanied with non-ischemic dilated cardiomyopathy. He had no history of heart disease, but echocardiogram demonstrated diffuse hypokinesis and dilated left ventricle. Coronary angiography revealed no organic stenotic lesion. For limb salvage, he was treated with granulocyte-...

Methamphetamine is known to cause a cardiomyopathy which may be reversible with appropriate medical therapy and cessation of use. Late gadolinium enhancement cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) has been shown to identify fibrosis in ischemic and non-ischemic cardiomyopathies. We present a case of severe methamphetamine-associated cardiomyopathy in which cardiac function recovered after 6 mo...