Cardiomyopathy
Description | No specific laboratory findings Differential diagnosis: CRP, ANA, ENA, cardiac muscle antibodies, cardiolipin antibodies, screening virus serology: Coxsackie-B, influenza-, adeno- and herpes virus. Evaluations as per clinical suspicion: Dilated cardiomyopathy: Suspected humoral and cellular immune mechanisms Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: Molecular-genetic evaluation possible Restricted cardiomyopathy: No specific laboratory diagnostics Please also refer to sections “amyloidosis, hemochromatosis” Secondary cardiomyopathy: Infectious cause, neuromuscular-, toxic-, endocrine-, metabolic diseases, collagenosis, storage diseases. Please also refer to section “myocarditis” |