Idiopathic cardiomyopathy in hamsters can cause death due to cardiac failure. The current case study investigated the capability of imaging reveal possible a dead hamster. To this end, cadaver 6-month-old male Roborovski dwarf hamster, which showed acute respiratory symptoms few days before its death, was examined by virtopsy discover death. Postmortem radiography not efficient enough evaluate ...

OBJECTIVE To assess pregnancy outcome in women with peripartum cardiomyopathy and to compare it with idiopathic cardiomyopathy. METHODS Twenty-six pregnant women, aged 28.4+/-6.1 years, with dilated cardiomyopathy were followed. Eighteen patients had peripartum cardiomyopathy [11 with persistent left ventricular systolic dysfunction (EF=45.2+/-2) and 7 with recovered ventricular function (EF=...

Cardiomyopathy as the initial presentation of phaeochromocytoma (PCA) is uncommon. Diagnostic work-up and perioperative management may be challenging within this context. We report three cases of PCA presenting with cardiomyopathy to illustrate the pitfalls in diagnosis and management. None of the patients had typical adrenergic symptoms and all three were established on beta-blockers prior to ...

Although idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy is often viewed as an affliction of young of middle-aged adults, morbidity and mortality rates from idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy rise sharply with age and are the highest in the elderly. To learn more about the determinants of this increasingly important cause of heart failure in the elderly, the authors conducted a pooled analysis of data from tw...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to document the various causes of dilated cardiomyopathy in a large group of adult patients with congestive heart failure. BACKGROUND Previous reports of the causes of dilated cardiomyopathy have usually been case reports of a single specific etiology or review articles. The frequency of any single specific heart muscle disease is largely unknown. ME...

Background Peripartum cardiomyopathy shares some clinical features with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy, a disorder caused by mutations in more than 40 genes, including TTN, which encodes the sarcomere protein titin. Methods In 172 women with peripartum cardiomyopathy, we sequenced 43 genes with variants that have been associated with dilated cardiomyopathy. We compared the prevalence of diff...

Several diseases with autoimmune features have recently been shown to be characterised by defects in suppressor cell immune regulation. Aberrant immune mechanisms of primary importance have been sought but not yet demonstrated for idiopathic congestive cardiomyopathy and rheumatic heart disease. We tested whether defective immunoregulatory function might explain certain features of these diseas...