To provide practical information for physicians who make diagnostic and therapeutic decisions regarding patients with cardiomyopathy, contributors identified only by name present 15 articles on the current understanding of cardiomyopathies of metabolic origin. Among their topics are morphological presentation, possibilities and frontiers of myocardial biopsy in childhood, cardiac involvement in glycogen storage diseases, pericardial effusion refractive to the therapy in an infant with the carbohydrate-deficient glycoprotein syndrome, and cardiovascular involvement in Gaucher disease. No date is noted for the first edition, nor a reason for the second. Distributed in the US by CRC Press.
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During the last 30 years a great deal of information has accumulated in the field of inherited metabolic diseases. This information provides a new foundation for our understanding of many heart muscle problems and their corresponding clinical disease entities. Drawing on the latest information in the field, Metabolic Cardiomyopathy provides a clear overview of the cardiological manifestations of inherited errors of metabolism. Reviewing current understanding of cardiomyopathies of metabolic origin, the book highlights cardiomyopathy in Fabry disease and congenital disorders of glycosylation (CDG-syndrome). It keeps you up to date on the in the rapidly changing field of cardiomyopathy.