April 13, 2000New England Journal of Medicine1,732 citationsOpen Access
Underlying Causes and Long-Term Survival in Patients with Initially Unexplained Cardiomyopathy
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Background Previous studies of the prognosis of patients with heart failure due to cardiomyopathy categorized patients according to whether they had ischemic or nonischemic disease. The prognostic value of identifying more specific underlying causes of cardiomyopathy is unknown.
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Felker et al. (2000) studied this question.