A clinical approach to new cardiomyopathy entails defining patient phenotype and disease pathophysiology.After echocardiography,invasive assessments to define hemodynamics and coronary anatomy are usually pursued.In s...A clinical approach to new cardiomyopathy entails defining patient phenotype and disease pathophysiology.After echocardiography,invasive assessments to define hemodynamics and coronary anatomy are usually pursued.In selected non-ischemic cases,endomyocardial biopsies are performed in search for an etiology.Fortunately,advances in cardiac imaging allow for a multifaceted cardiac evaluation in a single study,reducing cost,lead time to diagnosis,and procedural adverse events while still providing supreme accuracy.展开更多
文摘A clinical approach to new cardiomyopathy entails defining patient phenotype and disease pathophysiology.After echocardiography,invasive assessments to define hemodynamics and coronary anatomy are usually pursued.In selected non-ischemic cases,endomyocardial biopsies are performed in search for an etiology.Fortunately,advances in cardiac imaging allow for a multifaceted cardiac evaluation in a single study,reducing cost,lead time to diagnosis,and procedural adverse events while still providing supreme accuracy.
