Cardiomyopathies

Cardiomyopathy is a primary disorder of heart muscle that may cause cardiac dysfunction and is not related to any obvious disease process. It is heart muscle disease of unknown cause or association.There are many ways in which Cardiomyopathies are classified e.g. WHO classification,Functional classification, Etiologic classification, classification based on endomyocardial Biopsy findings and therapeutic classification. The two commonly used are Functional (Tables) and Pathological (Table). The WHO/International Federation of Cardiology classification is in Table .

 

Functional Classification of Cardiomyopathies

 Table : History Classification of Cardiomyopathy

Endomyocardial Bispsy Histology Classification of Cardiomyopathy
I)Inflammatory/immune cardiomyopathy

II)Infectious cardiomyopathy

III) Infiltrative cardiomyopathy

IV) Cardiac tumors

V) Miscellaneous specific cardiomyopathies

VI) Nonspecific abnormalities

VII) No histological abnormality

WHO/International Classification of Cardiomyopathy