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90 consecutive patients presenting with unexplained congestive heart failure who had endomyocardial biopsy…
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May question routine endomyocardial biopsy in unexplained HF; leaves open optimal selection criteria for prospective validation.
The low incidence of biopsy-proven myocarditis in patients with unexplained congestive heart failure raises questions about the routine need for endomyocardial biopsy in this population.
Leon C. Chow (1988) studied this question.
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