Proposal for a revised definition of dilated cardiomyopathy, hypokinetic non-dilated cardiomyopathy, and its implications for clinical practice: a position statement of the …

YM Pinto, PM Elliott, E Arbustini, Y Adler… - European heart …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
In this paper the Working Group on Myocardial and Pericardial Disease proposes a revised
definition of dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) in an attempt to bridge the gap between our …

Dilated cardiomyopathy: a review

A Luk, E Ahn, GS Soor, J Butany - Journal of clinical pathology, 2009 - jcp.bmj.com
Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is a common cardiac diagnosis that may result as a
consequence of a variety of pathologies. The differential diagnosis remains quite broad …

Dilated cardiomyopathy: causes, mechanisms, and current and future treatment approaches

S Heymans, NK Lakdawala, C Tschöpe, K Klingel - The Lancet, 2023 - thelancet.com
Dilated cardiomyopathy is conventionally defined as the presence of left ventricular or
biventricular dilatation or systolic dysfunction in the absence of abnormal loading conditions …

Dilated cardiomyopathy: from epidemiologic to genetic phenotypes: a translational review of current literature

D Reichart, C Magnussen, T Zeller… - Journal of internal …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is characterized by left ventricular dilatation and,
consecutively, contractile dysfunction. The causes of DCM are heterogeneous. DCM often …

Dilated cardiomyopathy

HP Schultheiss, DL Fairweather, ALP Caforio… - Nature reviews Disease …, 2019 - nature.com
Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is a clinical diagnosis characterized by left ventricular or
biventricular dilation and impaired contraction that is not explained by abnormal loading …

Dilated cardiomyopathy

NK Lakdawala, JR Winterfield… - Circulation: Arrhythmia …, 2013 - Am Heart Assoc
Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is an important cause of sudden cardiac death (SCD) and
heart failure (HF) and is the leading indication for cardiac transplantation in children and …

Dilated cardiomyopathy in the era of precision medicine: latest concepts and developments

N Orphanou, E Papatheodorou, A Anastasakis - Heart failure reviews, 2022 - Springer
Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is an umbrella term entailing a wide variety of genetic and
non-genetic etiologies, leading to left ventricular systolic dysfunction and dilatation, not …

Familial dilated cardiomyopathy: cardiac abnormalities are common in asymptomatic relatives and may represent early disease

MK Baig, JH Goldman, ALP Caforio, AS Coonar… - Journal of the American …, 1998 - jacc.org
Objectives. This study sought to determine whether early disease is identifiable in
asymptomatic relatives of patients with dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) by means of …

Evolving concepts in dilated cardiomyopathy

M Merlo, A Cannata, M Gobbo, D Stolfo… - European journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) represents a particular aetiology of systolic heart failure that
frequently has a genetic background and usually affects young patients with few co …

Contemporary survival trends and aetiological characterization in non‐ischaemic dilated cardiomyopathy

M Merlo, A Cannatà, C Pio Loco… - European Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Contemporary survival trends in dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) are largely unknown.
The aim of this study is to investigate clinical descriptors, survival trends and the prognostic …