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What are your diagnostic and treatment goals for a patient with cirrhotic cardiomyopathy?
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Hepatology · Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Cirrhotic cardiomyopathy (CCM) affects almost a third of liver transplant candidates. In the absence of primary cardiac disease abnormalities, diagnosis is based on echocardiographic criteria that predict pre-transplant morbidity and mortality, may be reversible, but abnormalities may persist even a...