RT Book, Section
A1 Bhalla, Narinder P.
A1 Underwood, Marguerite
A1 Levitov, Alexander B.
A2 Levitov, Alexander B.
A2 Mayo, Paul H.
A2 Slonim, Anthony D.
SR Print(0)
ID 1125015858
T1 ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC DIAGNOSIS OF CARDIOMYOPATHIES
T2 Critical Care Ultrasonography, 2e
YR 2015
FD 2015
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 978-0-07-179352-0
LK accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1125015858
RD 2024/04/20
AB In  its  simplest  form,  cardiomyopathy  (CMP)  can  be  defined  as  a  cardiac  disorder  involving  myocardial  dysfunction.  Though  there  are  various  formal  definitions  of  CMP  in  the  literature,  the  two  major  ones  are  from  the  World  Health  Organization  (WHO)  and  from  the  American  Heart  Association  (AHA).  The  WHO  definition  is  more  clinical,  while  the  AHA  definition  is  more  molecular  and  scientific  in  its  delineation.  For  the  purpose  of  this  chapter,  we  follow  the  simpler  definition  by  WHO  as  it  lends  itself  well  to  the  echocardiographic  evaluation  of  cardiomyopathies.