Key result
Endomyocardial catheter biopsy allowed clear prognostic separation in patients with congestive cardiomyopathy, a disease with a 10-year mortality rate of 70% from symptom onset.
Why the study?
Does endomyocardial catheter biopsy provide prognostic and diagnostic value in patients with congestive cardiomyopathy and those with potential presymptomatic manifestations?
Observational (n=101)
Does endomyocardial catheter biopsy provide prognostic and diagnostic value in patients with congestive cardiomyopathy and those with potential presymptomatic manifestations?
Endomyocardial catheter biopsy provides valuable prognostic information in congestive cardiomyopathy and can identify early presymptomatic stages in patients presenting with isolated left bundle branch block.
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Biopsy may refine prognosis in high-mortality cardiomyopathy; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
Kuhn et al. (1978) conducted an observational in Congestive cardiomyopathy (COCM) (n=101). Endomyocardial catheter biopsy (EMCB) was evaluated on Prognosis and clinical course. Endomyocardial catheter biopsy allowed clear prognostic separation in patients with congestive cardiomyopathy, a disease with a 10-year mortality rate of 70% from symptom onset.
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