By definition, myocardiopathies or cardiomyopathies (CM) are heart muscle diseases that cause structural and functional myocardial abnormalities in the absence of coronary artery disease, hypertension, valvular disease, and congenital heart disease., CM constitute a very heterogeneous group of heart diseases and are one of the leading causes of death either from end-stage heart failure or sudden death due to arrythmias. According to the phenotype, CM may be classified into hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, dilated cardiomyopathy, restrictive cardiomyopathy, arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy, and […]
