Internal Medicine: Cardiomyopathies and Pericardiopathies

Internal Medicine: Cardiomyopathies and Pericardiopathies — Expert Guide

How it begins

Cardiomyopathies (CM) are diseases of the heart muscle that produce mechanical and/or electrical dysfunction, usually (but not always) with hypertrophy or inappropriate dilation. The classification has evolved significantly: the historical morphofunctional classification of the WHO (1995) into hypertrophic, dilated, restrictive and arrhythmogenic has been enriched by the classification of the ESC (2008) and the most...

What it covers

1. General Classification of Cardiomyopathies
2. · Global Epidemiology
3. Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM)
4. · Genetics and Pathophysiology
5. · Histopathology of HCM
6. · Multimodal diagnosis of HCM
7. · Treatment of HCM
8. Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM)
9. · Etiology and Genetics of DCM
10. · Pathophysiology of DCM and Cardiac Remodeling
11. · Diagnosis and Treatment of DCM
12. Restrictive Cardiomyopathy (RCM)
13. · Cardiac Amyloidosis: The Most Important MCR
14. · Cardiac Sarcoidosis
15. · Cardiac Hemochromatosis
16. · Other Causes of MCR
17. Arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy (ACM / ARVC)
18. · Desmosomal Genetics
19. · Diagnosis and Criteria Task Force 2010 (Revised 2023)
20. · Treatment of CAM
21. Other Cardiomyopathies
22. · LV Non-Compaction Cardiomyopathy (NCCM)
23. · Takotsubo cardiomyopathy (Apical Balloon Syndrome)
24. · Peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM)
25. Myocarditis
26. · Viral and Fulminant Myocarditis
27. · Giant Cell Myocarditis (GCM)
28. · Eosinophilic Myocarditis
29. · Myocarditis due to Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors (ICI)
30. Acute Pericarditis
31. · Diagnosis and Criteria
32. · Recurrent Pericarditis
33. · Treatment: ESC 2015 Guidelines
34. Pericardial effusion
35. Cardiac Tamponade
36. Constrictive Pericarditis
37. · Differential Pathophysiology: Constriction vs. Restriction
38. · Causes of Constrictive Pericarditis
39. · Treatment
40. Multimodal Diagnosis of Cardiomyopathies
41. · Echocardiography: The First Step
42. · Cardiac Magnetic Resonance (CMR)
43. · Endomyocardial Biopsy (EMB)
44. Sudden Cardiac Death (SCD) in Cardiomyopathies