Underlying Causes and Long-Term Survival in Patients with Initially Unexplained Cardiomyopathy

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Authors

G. Michael Felker

Richard E. Thompson · Johns Hopkins University

Joshua M. Hare

Ralph H. Hruban · Johns Hopkins University

Abstract

Background Previous studies of the prognosis of patients with heart failure due to cardiomyopathy categorized patients according to whether they had ischemic or nonischemic disease. The prognostic value of identifying more specific underlying causes of cardiomyopathy is unknown.

Topics & Keywords

Cardiovascular Issues in Pregnancy Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair Eosinophilic Disorders and Syndromes

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Good health and well-being

Publication Details

Published in: New England Journal of Medicine

Volume 342, Issue 15, pp. 1077-1084

DOI: 10.1056/nejm200004133421502

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