Population
9 patients total: 3 with severe congestive cardiomyopathy and 6 who died of myocardial infarction.
Design
Case_series
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May suggest immune contribution in severe cardiomyopathy; hypothesis-generating and should not change practice.
Advanced cardiomyopathy may involve preferential fixation of heart-reactive immunoglobulins to sarcolemmal antigens, suggesting an immune component to the disease pathology.
Das et al. (1971) studied this question.
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