Corresponding Author: Emre Yalcinkaya, MD; e-mail: [email protected] 3545 Dear Editor, We read the article by Nucci, et al1 entitled “The role of 3D and speckle tracking echocardiography in cardiac amyloidosis: a case report,” which is recently published in European Review for Medical and Pharmacological Sciences. The authors1 presented a patient with cardiac amyloidosis, and the diagn...

The emerging role of MRI for the understanding and treatment of cardiomyopathies cannot be overestimated. Establishing the diagnosis is generally possible by a single noninvasive MRI study. The follow-up examination is sensitive to even small changes. MRI data on ventricular morphology, volumes, and function are very reliable, and the use of MRI-derived end points in clinical studies may lead t...

Methamphetamine is known to cause a cardiomyopathy which may be reversible with appropriate medical therapy and cessation of use. Late gadolinium enhancement cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) has been shown to identify fibrosis in ischemic and non-ischemic cardiomyopathies. We present a case of severe methamphetamine-associated cardiomyopathy in which cardiac function recovered after 6 mo...

Some traditional cardiomyopathies are well known. For instance peripartum cardiomyopathy. Complete recovery occurs in 50% percentage. Similarly tachycardiomyopathy can be caused by a heavy burden of ventricular ectopics, or by an incessant supraventricular tachycardia, or by repeated episodes of ventricular tachycardia. Ensite or Cartographic mapping and ablation of the arrhythmia can abolish t...

Ventricular noncompaction, characterized by numerous, prominent ventricular trabeculations and deep intratrabecular recesses, is thought to be due to an arrest of myocardial morphogenesis. We report eight patients with ventricular noncompaction diagnosed at our center in the previous one year. Two patients had associated congenital cardiac anomalies while the others were without coexisting card...

964 INTRODUCTION Cardiomyopathies are generally associated with a myocyte growth program that leads to an increase in the size of individual muscle cells. Individuals who have cardiac hypertrophy and cardiomyopathies are predisposed to the development of heart failure (Vasan et al., 1997). Heart failure affects 5.7 million individuals in the United States, has an annual economic health care bur...

Cardiomyopathies are diseases of the heart muscle, a term introduced in 1957 to identify a group of myocardial diseases not attributable to coronary artery disease. The definition has since been modified to refer to structural and or functional abnormalities of the myocardium where other known causes of myocardial dysfunction, such as systemic hypertension, valvular disease and ischemic heart d...