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Hepatology • Transplant Hepatology
What are your diagnostic and treatment goals for a patient with cirrhotic cardiomyopathy?
Would treating underlying cirrhosis/transplant cure the driver of their cardiac dysfunction, and is this reversible? What unique transplant complications may this carry?
Answer from: at Academic Institution
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...
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