Cardiomyopathies are a heterogeneous group of heart muscle diseases associated with heart failure, arrhythmias, and death. Genetic variation has a critical role in the pathogenesis of cardiomyopathies, and numerous single-gene mutations have been associated with distinctive cardiomyopathy phenotypes. Contemporaneously with these discoveries, there has been enormous growth of genome-wide sequenc...

Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) has undergone considerable technology advances in recent years, so that it is now entering into mainstream cardiac imaging practice. In particular, CMR is proving to be a valuable imaging tool in the detection, morphological assessment and functional assessment of cardiomyopathies. Although our understanding of this broad group of heart disorders continu...

global myocardial ischemia and ischemia-reperfusion injury are potential adverse events related with cardioplegic arrest. beating heart surgery has avoided such complications and adapted to valve surgery following successful results published on myocardial revascularization. difficulty in weaning from cardiopulmonary bypass may be lessened by using on-pump beating heart surgery for mitral valve...

Cardiomyopathies are diseases of the heart muscle, a term introduced in 1957 to identify a group of myocardial diseases not attributable to coronary artery disease. The definition has since been modified to refer to structural and or functional abnormalities of the myocardium where other known causes of myocardial dysfunction, such as systemic hypertension, valvular disease and ischemic heart d...

Background: Interpreting the electrocardiography (ECG) recording in young athletes is challenging for sports doctor. Changes intraventricular conduction and early ventricular repolarization observed during training are not always confirmed literature. We test healthy people look irregularities their ECG records. The study aims to draw attention ST-Elevation (STE) as a variant of White Athlete's...

Cellular electrophysiological consequences of acute ischemia superimposed on healed myocardial infarction were studied in isolated, coronary-perfused cat left ventricles 2-4 months after ligation of multiple distal tributaries of the left anterior descending and circumflex coronary arteries. Oxygenated Tyrode's solution was perfused through the left anterior descending and circumflex coronary a...

The book Drug Therapy in Dilated Cardiomyopathy and Myocarditis is one of 11 volumes in a series of monographs on basic and clinical cardiology. It deals with the traditional, novel, and experimental pharmacologic agents used to treat congestive heart failure (CHF) and myocarditis, and with the relationship between these two disorders. The precise definition of dilated cardiomyopathy differs ac...

Cardiomyopathies are defined as cardiac diseases of the myocardium with associated cardiac dysfunction. They are cardiac diseases in which heart muscle disease and/or measurable deterioration of cardiac muscle function occurs due to various causes, such as genetic and sporadic mutations of muscle proteins, as well as external factors such as hypertension, ischemia, and inflammation. In 1995, th...