RT Book, Section
A1 Maslow, Andrew
A1 Shernan, Stanton K.
A2 Mathew, Joseph P.
A2 Swaminathan, Madhav
A2 Ayoub, Chakib M.
SR Print(0)
ID 6918355
T1 Chapter 14. Echocardiographic Evaluation of Cardiomyopathies
T2 Clinical Manual and Review of Transesophageal Echocardiography, 2e
YR 2010
FD 2010
PB The McGraw-Hill Companies
PP New York, NY
SN 978-0-07-163476-2
LK accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=6918355
RD 2024/04/19
AB Cardiomyopathy  is  generally  defined  as  a  “disease  of  the  myocardium  associated  with  cardiac  dysfunction.”1  Primary  cardiomyopathies  are  divided  into  four  major  classifications:  (a)  dilated  cardiomyopathy  (DCM),  (b)  hypertrophic  cardiomyopathy  (HCM),  (c)  restrictive  (or  infiltrative)  cardiomyopathy  (RICM),  and  (d)  miscellaneous  group  including  left  ventricular  non-compaction  (LVNC),  arrhythmogenic  right  ventricular  dysplasia  (AVRD),  and  Tako-tsubo  cardiomyopathy.  Each  of  the  primary  cardiomyopathies  has  distinctive  morphological  and  functional  characteristics  even  though  they  may  present  clinically  in  a  similar  fashion.  The  etiology  of  primary  or  idiopathic  cardiomyopathies  is  not  attributable  to  another  systemic  disease  process.  Alternatively,  primary  cardiomyopathies  refer  to  primary  diseases  of  the  heart  muscle  (Table  14–1).