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Cardiomyopathies comprise a large and inhomogenous group of myocardial diseases. The term primary cardiomyopathy has been proposed for those cases in which a causal factor could not be found.
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Kasper, W., Hoffmann, T., Bechtold, H., Treese, N., Pop, T., Meinertz, T. (1983). Echocardiographic Studies in Cardiomyopathies. In: Just, H., Schuster, H.P. (eds) Myocarditis Cardiomyopathy. International Boehringer Mannheim Symposia. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-68608-5_18
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