Advances in Cardiomyopathies: Proceedings of the II Florence Meeting on Advances on Cardiomyopathies April 24–26, 1997

Introduction: II Florence Meeting on Advances in Cardiomyopathies The Clinical Significance of Genetic Testing in Familial Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy The Italian Multicentric Study on Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: I.Natural History and Clinical Course of Unselected Patients Detection and Clinical Consequences of Myocardial Ischemia and, Reduced Coronary Reserve The Coronary Circulation is Dysfunctional in both Hypertrophied and Non-Hypertrophied Myocardium Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy and Sudden Death in the Young: a Pathologist's View Identification and Management of High Risk Patients with Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy The Italian Multicentric Study on Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: II. Prognostic Assessment in Symptomatic Patients Medical Treatment of Heart Failure in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy DDD Pacing in HCM: State of the Art Indications and Outcome of Cardiac Surgery for Severely Symptomatic Patients with Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy Genetic Basis of Dilated Cardiomyopathy Virus Infection in Cardiomyopathies: Brief Overview, Recent Advances Organ-specific Cardiac Autoantibodies in Dilated Cardiomyopathy: Pathogenetic Implications Inflammatory Cardiomyopathy: Diagnosis and Therapeutical Options Pathophysiologic Role of Coronary Microcirculatory Impairment in Dilated Cardiomyopathy Molecular Biology of Cardiac Failure Dilated Cardiomyopathy: does Etiological Heterogeneity Portend Clinical Heterogeneity? The Natural History of Dilated Cardiomyopathy. The SPIC Registry 1986-1995. Therapeutic Strategies in Dilated Cardiomyopathy: Immunosuppressive Treatment for Inflammatory Dilated Cardiomyopathy (Myocarditis) Prevention of Sudden Death in Patients with Dilated Cardiomyopathy End-Stage Heart Failure and Timing of Heart Transplantation Beta-Blockers for Heart Failure: Practical Issues DDD Pacing in Dilated Cardiomyopathy Cardiomyoplasty: Surgical Therapy for Ischemic and Idiopathic Dilated Cardiomyopathies .