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Specific heart muscle diseases

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Heart Muscle Disease

Part of the book series: Current Status of Clinical Cardiology ((CSOCC,volume 3))

Abstract

Myocardial involvement in a variety of systemic diseases1–3 may be manifest symptomatically — by congestive heart failure, arrhythmias, embolic phenomena, and even sudden death; by laboratory test abnormalities, particularly alterations of the electrocardiogram and the chest roentgenogram; or the diagnosis may be based on incidental findings at autopsy examination.

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Wenger, N.K. (1985). Specific heart muscle diseases. In: Goodwin, J.F. (eds) Heart Muscle Disease. Current Status of Clinical Cardiology, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4874-7_5

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