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Heart Muscle Disease

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  • © 1985

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Editors:
  1. J. F. Goodwin

    1. Department of Clinical Cadiology, Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK

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

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Cardiomyopathies and specific heart muscle diseases: definition, terminology and classification

    1. Cardiomyopathies and specific heart muscle diseases: definition, terminology and classification

      • J. F. Goodwin
      Pages 1-5

  3. Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

    1. Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

      • J. K. Perloff, J. F. Goodwin, D. D. Sugrue, W. J. McKenna
      Pages 7-56

  4. Dilated (Congestive) Cardiomyopathy

    1. Dilated (Congestive) Cardiomyopathy

      • E. G. J. Olsen, R. O. Brandenburg
      Pages 57-86

  5. Restrictive cardiomyopathy

    1. Restrictive cardiomyopathy

      • J. Davies
      Pages 87-94

  6. Specific heart muscle diseases

    1. Specific heart muscle diseases

      • N. K. Wenger
      Pages 95-139

  7. Amyloid heart disease

    1. Amyloid heart disease

      • C. M. Oakley
      Pages 141-153

  8. Controversies in Cardiomyopathy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 155-155
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    2. Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy—The Obstructive Dilemma

      • J. M. Criley, R. J. Siegel, J. P. Murgo, J. W. Miller, H. Kuhn, E. D. Wigle et al.
      Pages 157-262

    3. Dilated (Congestive) Cardiomyopathy—The evidence for and Against a Disorder of Cellular Immunity and Infection

      • P. J. Lowry, W. A. Littler, H.-D Bolte
      Pages 263-284

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 285-291
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About this book

Twenty five years ago, cardiomyopathies or myocardopathies as they were sometimes called, were in very small print, and often the terms myocarditis and cardiomyopathy were used interchangeably. Now definition and classifi­ cation can be precise and terminology has been refined. Although a great deal still has to be learnt about the heart muscle diseases, they have now achieved the status of an important group of cardiovascular disorders. Their importance is out of proportion to their frequency because the cardiomyopathies so often attack young otherwise active and healthy people, and are notable for sudden unexpected death, and for intractable congestive heart failure. They are especially a meance in age groups younger than those most commonly effected by coronary heart disease. This book presents an analysis and review by many experts of the present knowledge about heart muscle diseases and employs the approach to classi­ fication and terminology now generally, though not universally, agreed. It will be apparent that much fundamental research must be done now that the clinical problems have been defined. In the future, the collaboration of molecular biologists and other basic scientists will be needed to illuminate the dark places of our ignorance.

Reviews

`... an excellent summary of current knowledge and will be of value mainly to persons who have a particular interest in the clinical aspects of diseases of the heart muscle.'
Medical Journal of Australia, November 1986.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Clinical Cadiology, Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK

    J. F. Goodwin

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Heart Muscle Disease

  • Editors: J. F. Goodwin

  • Series Title: Current Status of Clinical Cardiology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4874-7

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: MTP Press Limited 1985

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-8657-8Published: 14 December 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-4874-7Published: 11 November 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 320

  • Topics: Cardiology

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