Abstract
Despite advances in drug therapy, the prognosis of patients with heart failure remains poor.
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The accurate assessment of prognosis in patients with this disorder is critical, to ensure that patients with the most severe disease receive appropriate consideration for the limited number of hearts available for transplantation. Although substantial research has demonstrated the prognostic value of a variety of clinical characteristics in patients with heart failure,
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few data are available on the association between the cause of cardiomyopathy and the long-term prognosis.
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Previous studies addressing the influence of the underlying cause on prognosis have generally compared patients with . . .
