Underlying Causes and Long-Term Survival in Patients with Initially Unexplained Cardiomyopathy
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- 13 April 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 342 (15) , 1077-1084
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm200004133421502
Abstract
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.Keywords
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