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Current procedures for the diagnosis of myocardial disease leave much to be desired. The terms congestive, hypertrophic (with or without obstruction) and restrictive are not sufficient for classifying all aspects of myocardial diseases. The definition of so-called primary CM does not include biochemical, morphologic or immunologic events, and therefore the borderline between primary and secondary CM is often vague. Thus for diagnosis and therapy all CMs should be further characterized clinically and by laboratory tests. Our present interest concerns primarily the relationship of cardiomyopathies to immunologic findings. In addition we have tried to correlate quantitative immunoglobulins, antibody determinations by immunofluorescence techniques using in some cases myocardial biopsy specimen, and the underlying myocardial disease of clinically examined patients [3].
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Bolte, HD. (1978). Immunologic Investigation in Patients With Cardiomyopathies. In: Kaltenbach, M., Loogen, F., Olsen, E.G.J. (eds) Cardiomyopathy and Myocardial Biopsy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-66772-5_21
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