Cardiomyopathies: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

Abstract

The interest in myocardial damage is very old, but only in recent decades has there been a reasonable advance in greater knowledge thereof. Ancient peoples were limited to rudimentary observations on the morphology and physiology of the circulatory system, but with special interest directed to the heart. Texts in cuneiform scripts from Sumer, considered the first civilization in human history; others from the Library of Ashurbanipal, with inscriptions on clay tiles, discovered intact under the sands at Nineveh; Egyptian hieroglyphs [...]