Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Meyer, Sven
• van der Meer, Peter
• van Tintelen, J. Peter
• van den Berg, Maarten P.

Titel

Sex differences in cardiomyopathies

Ist Teil von

• European journal of heart failure, 2014-03, Vol.16 (3), p.238-247

Ort / Verlag

Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Cardiomyopathies are a heterogeneous group of heart muscle diseases with a variety of specific phenotypes. According to the contemporary European Society of Cardiology classification, they are classified into hypertrophic (HCM), dilated (DCM), arrhythmogenic right ventricular (ARVC), restrictive (RCM), and unclassified cardiomyopathies. Each class is aetiologically further categorized into inherited (familial) and non‐inherited (non‐familial) forms. There is substantial evidence that biological sex is a strong modulator of the clinical manifestation of these cardiomyopathies, and sex‐specific characteristics are detectable in all classes. For the clinician, it is important to know the sex‐specific aspects of clinical disease expression and the potential modes of inheritance or the hereditary influences underlying the development of cardiomyopathies, since these may aid in diagnosing such diseases in both sexes.