(xiv, 315 pages 77 illustrations, 8 illustrations in color.)
I. Introduction --;1 Definition, Classification and Terminology --;II. Dilated Cardiomyopathy --;2 Clinical Aspects --;3 Pathology --;4 Clinical Investigation: New Approaches --;5 Prognosis and Management --;III. Hypertrophie Cardiomyopathy --;6 Clinical Aspects --;7 Pathology --;8 Clinical Investigation: Current Approaches --;9 Haemodynamic Disorders: Management and Prognosis --;IV. Restrictive Cardiomyopathy --;10 Clinical Aspects --;11 Pathology --;12 Doppler Echocardiographic Investigations --;V. Amyloid Heart Disease and Others --;13 Amyloid Heart Disease and Cardiomyopathies Difficult to Classify --;VI. Experimental, Clinical, Immunological and Molecular Biological Research --;14 The Significance of Autoantibodies and the Role of the ADP/ATP Carrier in the Pathogenesis of Viral Heart Disease, Myocarditis and Dilated Cardiomyopathy --;15 Experimental Studies of Humoral and Cellular Immunological Parameters of Viral Heart Disease --;16 Enteroviral Heart Muscle Disease: Current Molecular Studies and Future Research. --;17 The Molecular Genetics of Familial Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy.
This book reviews the basic knowledge about the cardiomyopathies and re-enforces the well-known definitions and classification of cardiomyopathies and specific heart muscle diseases, respectively.