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Example sentences for: cardiomyopathy

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Initial work-up did not reveal any evidence of a cardiomyopathy.
Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is a disorder characterized by four-chamber dilation of the heart.
The leading cause of death among patients hospitalized for atrial fibrillation was unknown (26%), followed by cardiac arrest of unknown cause (19%), cardiac arrthymia (8%), acute myocardial infarction (7%), atherosclerotic heart disease (6%), cardiomyopathy (3%) and stroke (3%).
The first autosomal dominant form of cardiomyopathy was mapped in 1994 to the centromeric region of chromosome 1 [ 9 ] . Linkage was achieved using genetic and clinical material from a large, well-characterized kindred [ 1 ] . One of the striking characteristics from this family was the degree of cardiac conduction system disease that primarily targeted the atrioventricular node [ 1 10 ] . Many members of the kindred exhibited sick sinus syndrome, atrial fibrillation and sudden death.
Conduction disease preceded the development of dilated cardiomyopathy in the proband's family [ 1 10 ] . This indicates the necessity for careful documentation of a three-generation pedigree in the evaluation of patients with conduction system disease paying particular attention to sudden death, arrhythmia and bradycardia.