Chronic cardiomyopathies are differentiated into three types on clinical grounds based on their definition as a non-atherosclerotic disorder of the heart muscle.
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Cardiomyopathy has been defined as "a subacute or chronic disorder of heart muscle of un- known or obscure etiology, often with associated endocardial, and sometimes with pericardial, involvement, but not atherosclerotic in origin". Using this definition a differentiation of chronic cardiomyopathies into three types has been made on clinical grounds (Goodwin et al., 1961).
Hollister et al. (Wed,) reported a other. Chronic cardiomyopathies are differentiated into three types on clinical grounds based on their definition as a non-atherosclerotic disorder of the heart muscle.