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Cardiomyopathy: general diagnostic term designating primary non-inflammatory disease of heart muscle. Often of obscure or unknown etiology. Not the result of: ischemia, hypertension, congenital anomaly, valvular disease, or pericardial disease. Usually subdivided into the following forms: dilated; hypertrophic; and restrictive. According to World Health Organization (WHO): only those disorders in which pathological process involves only myocardium; cause is unknown; not part of a disease affecting other organs; also called \'primary cardiomyopathy\'
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