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Supports echocardiography for cardiomyopathy evaluation; leaves open incremental benefit of advanced techniques in prospective studies.
The term cardiomyopathy represents a wide spectrum of myocardial diseases with diverse clinical features and the potential to cause debilitating symptoms, or even death. Echocardiography plays a crucial role in the diagnosis and monitoring of these disorders; contemporary techniques, such as tissue Doppler, contrast echo and 3D echo have added further value to the assessment.
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