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Edited by Makoto Nagano, Nobuakira Takeda, and Naranjan S. Dhalla. 464 pp., illustrated. New York, Raven Press, 1993. $95. ISBN 0-7817-0092-2.

Congestive heart failure due to various forms of cardiomyopathy is a leading cause of cardiac morbidity and mortality. Despite recent clinical advances in the detection and treatment of cardiomyopathies, many fundamental questions remain unanswered. Progress in the field has been hampered most notably by the lack of clinically relevant experimental models of cardiomyopathy.

In May 1992, a symposium on cellular abnormalities associated with cardiomyopathies in animals was held in Tokyo, Japan, under the direction of Dr. Makoto Nagano. Now Nagano and colleagues have published the proceedings of this symposium as The Cardiomyopathic Heart. This book includes 44 original scientific contributions . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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