Comprehensive biopsy-based diagnosis of inflammatory cardiomyopathy as a cause of new-onset heart failure of unclear etiology: initial experience

Abstract

Background and aim of the study: Dilated cardiomyopathy is caused by various myocardial diseases leading to global left ventricular (LV) systolic dysfunction. The aim of our study was to assess the prevalence of inflammatory dilated cardiomyopathy (IDCM) in patients with new-onset heart failure and unexplained LV systolic dysfunction.

Keywords

• Inflammatory cardiomyopathy
• endomyocardial biopsy
• virus
• Borrelia burgdorferi