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European Heart Journal 1987 8(5):535-540;
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© 1987 The European Society of Cardiology

Normalization of variables of left ventricular function in patients with alcoholic cardiomyopathy after cessation of excessive alcohol intake: an echocardiographic study

D. PAVAN, G. L. NICOLOSI, C. LESTUZZI, C. BURELLI, F. ZARDO and D. ZANUTTINI

Servizio di Emodinamica, Ospedale Civile Pordenone, Italy

Received 11 August 1986; revised 23 October 1986; .

Daniela Pavan, M.D., Servizio di Emodinamica, Ospedale Civile, Via Montereale, 33170 Pordenone, Italy.

Abstract

An excessive alcohol intake has been reported as one of the possible causes or risk factors of ‘alcoholic cardiomyopathy’. The possibility that this cardiomyopathy may improve or even reverse if the alcohol abuse has been terminated has been suggested, but unequivocal echocardiographic documentation of this improvement has never been described.

This study reports the normalization of cardiac chamber dimensions and of variables of left ventricular function documented by M-mode and cross-sectional echocardiographic follow-up studies, after cessation of excessive consumption of alcohol, in three cases of alcoholic cardiomyopathy.

Key Words: Alcoholic cardiomyopathy • echocardiography


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