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European Journal of Heart Failure 2007 9(1):4-6; doi:10.1016/j.ejheart.2006.04.010
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© 2007 European Society of Cardiology

Is there a common genetic basis for all familial cardiomyopathies?

Andreas Perrot*, Rainer Dietz and Karl Josef Osterziel

Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin/Cardiology Campus Buch & Virchow-Klinikum, and Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine Berlin, Germany

* Corresponding author. Charité-Universitétsmedizin Berlin, Campus Buch, Haus 129, Wiltbergstrasse 50, 13125 Berlin, Germany. Tel.: +49 30 9417 2508; fax: +49 30 9417 2279. E-mail address: andreas.perrot@charite.de

Received December 27, 2005;
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According to the 1995 World Health Organization definition, cardiomyopathies are "diseases of the myocardium associated with cardiac dysfunction" [1]. Traditionally, cardiomyopathies are differentiated according to the pathologic changes in cardiac morphology and function using cardiac imaging and invasive methods to exclude coronary artery disease. The two distinct patterns of cardiac remodelling, hypertrophy and dilation, are the main criteria for classifying a patient's disease as a hypertrophic or a dilated cardiomyopathy; cardiac filling is used to define restrictive cardiomyopathy. For the practicing physician, hypertrophic (HCM), dilated (DCM), and restrictive cardiomyopathy (RCM) are clearly distinct disorders.

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