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European Heart Journal Advance Access originally published online on May 15, 2008
European Heart Journal 2008 29(12):1592; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn188
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Published on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved. © The Author 2008. For permissions please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

The new European definition of cardiomyopathies: which space for muscle dystrophies?: reply

Perry Elliott

Department of Cardiology
The Heart Hospital
16-18 Westmoreland Street,
London
UK
E-mail address: pelliott{at}doctors.org.uk
and on behalf of the following co-authors:

Bert Andersson

Eloisa Arbustini

Zofia Bilinska

Franco Cecchi

Philippe Charron

Olivier Dubourg

Uwe Kühl

Bernhard Maisch

William J. McKenna

Lorenzo Monserrat

Sabine Pankuweit

Claudio Rapezzi

Petar Seferovic

Luigi Tavazzi

Andre Keren

We thank Dr Galderisi for his response to the European Society of Cardiology classification of cardiomyopathy.1 His comments on neuromuscular disorders such as Duchenne's and Becker's muscular dystrophies illustrate the spectrum of diseases that can cause cardiomyopathies. The aim of the working group for myocardial and pericardial diseases was to ensure that the classification system was sufficiently flexible to allow incorporation of a whole range of disorders under the umbrella of diagnosis of cardiomyopathy. This is achieved by basing the classification on the cardiac phenotype. As heart disease caused by neuromuscular disorders usually falls into one of the major morphological subtypes, it is not necessary to create a separate sub-classification for muscular dystrophies.

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  1. Elliott P, Andersson B, Arbustini E, Bilinska Z, Cecchi F, Charron P, Dubourg O, Kühl U, Maisch B, McKenna WJ, Monserrat L, Pankuweit S, Rapezzi C, Seferovic P, Tavazzi L, Keren A. Classification of the cardiomyopathies: a position statement from the European Society of Cardiology Working Group on Myocardial and Pericardial Diseases. Eur Heart J (2008) 29:270–276.[Abstract/Free Full Text]

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