Domenico Corrado , Gaetano Thiene , Barbara Bauce, Chiara Calore, Alberto Cipriani, Manuel De Lazzari, Federico Migliore, Martina Perazzolo Marra, Kalliopi Pilichou, Ilaria Rigato, Stefania Rizzo, Alessandro Zorzi, Cristina Basso
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Abstract
Over the last 20 years, the scientific progresses in molecular biology and genetics in combination with the increasing use in the clinical setting of contrast-enhanced cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) for morpho-functional imaging and structural myocardial tissue characterization have provided important new insights into our understanding of the distinctive aspects of cardiomyopathy, regarding both the genetic and biologic background and the clinical phenotypic features. This has led to the need of an appropriate revision and upgrading of current nosographic framework and pathobiological categorization of heart muscle disorders.
This article proposes a new definition and classification of cardiomyopathies that rely on the combination of the distinctive pathobiological basis (genetics, molecular biology and pathology) and the clinical phenotypic pattern (morpho-functional and structural features), leading to the proposal of three different disease categories, each of either genetic or non-genetic etiology and characterized by a combined designation based on both “anatomic” and “functional” features, i.e., hypertrophic/restrictive (H/RC), dilated/hypokinetic (D/HC) and scarring/arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy (S/AC).
The clinical application of the newly proposed classification approach in the real-world practice appears crucial to design a targeted clinical management and evaluation of outcomes of affected patients. Although current treatment of cardiomyopathies is largely palliative and based on drugs, catheter ablation, device or surgical interventions aimed to prevent and manage heart failure and malignant arrhythmias, better knowledge of basic mechanisms involved in the onset and progression of pathobiologically different heart muscle diseases may allow to the development of disease-specific curative therapy.
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