aetiology
Last reviewed 01/2018
Causes include:
- idiopathic
- infiltrations or granulomatous disease:
- amyloidosis - commonest cause in the UK
- sarcoidosis
- malignancy, such as leukaemic infiltration
- haemochromatosis
- eosinophilic endomyocardial disease
- endomyocardial fibrosis
- familial storage disease:
- glycogen storage disease
- mucopolysaccharidoses
- endocardial fibroelastosis
Source: adapted from the WHO/ISFC task force report on the definition and classification of cardiomyopathies, 1980.
eosinophilic endomyocardial disease