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Anales de Medicina Interna

versión impresa ISSN 0212-7199

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CODINACH HUIX, P.  y  FREIXA PAMIAS, R.. Diabetic cardyomiopathy: concept, cardiac function and pathophysiology. An. Med. Interna (Madrid) [online]. 2002, vol.19, n.6, pp.55-62. ISSN 0212-7199.

The diabetic cardiomyopathy is a disease caused by diabetes and is characterised by the presence of diastolic and/or systolic left ventricular dysfunction. Diabetes may produce metabolic alterations, interstitial fibrosis, myocellular hypertrophy, microvascular disease and autonomic dysfunction. It is thought that all of them may cause cardiomyopathy.  Other abnormalities that are usually associated with diabetes such as hypertension, coronary artery disease and nephropathy should be excluded before diagnosing diabetic cardiomyopathy. There is no evidence that diabetic cardiomyopathy alone can produce heart failure. However, subclinical ventricular dysfunction has been described in young asymptomatic diabetic patients without other diseases that could affect the cardiac muscle. In these cases we should consider that diabetes is the only cause of the myocardial disease. More studies are needed to know the natural history of diabetic cardiomyopathy. 

Palabras clave : Diabetic cardiomyopathy; Left ventricular dysfunction; Diabetes type I.

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