Why the study?
Does endomyocardial biopsy improve the histopathological differentiation and clinical assessment of primary myocardial disease?
Population
299 cases, comprising 126 autopsied or biopsied cases of different diseases and 173 cases of suspected…
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
varying intervals
Authors
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May support endomyocardial biopsy for differentiating myocardial diseases; leaves open its role in contemporary management without prospective validation.
Does endomyocardial biopsy improve the histopathological differentiation and clinical assessment of primary myocardial disease?
Endomyocardial biopsy is a valuable diagnostic tool for differentiating secondary from primary myocardial diseases and classifying histopathological changes in cardiomyopathies.
Sekiguchi et al. (1969) studied this question.
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