Provides a general overview of the presentation, symptoms, and classification of cardiomyopathies.
Clinicians should maintain broad differentials for HF symptoms; leaves open gaps in rare cardiomyopathy management.
The most common cardiomyopathies often present to primary care physicians with similar symptoms, despite the fact that they involve a variety of phenotypes and etiologies (1). Many have signs and symptoms common in heart failure, such as reduced ejection fraction, peripheral edema, fatigue, orthopnea, exertion dyspnea, paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea, presyncope, syncope and cardiac ischemia (1). In all cardiomyopathies, the cardiac muscle (myocardium) may be structurally and/or functionally impaired. They can be classified as hypertrophic, dilated, left-ventricular non compaction, restrictive and arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathies.
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Precone et al. (2019) conducted a review in Cardiomyopathies. Next-generation sequencing (NGS) panel was evaluated on Analytical sensitivity and specificity.
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