Table 1.
Suspected etiologies of newly diagnosed non-ischemic cardiomyopathy in our study population.
Table 2.
Patients` baseline characteristics.
Figure 1.
Late gadolinium-enhanced (LGE) cardiac magnetic resonance imaging in short-axis orientation of the left ventricle in three different patients.
Different types of LGE can be found, characteristic for entity of non-ischemic cardiomyopathy. (a) Epicardial LGE in a patient suspected of having (sub)acute myocarditis. (b) Non-ischemic cardiomyopathy with diffuse midwall stripe pattern of the septum, indicating idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy. (c) Typical patchy LGE/fibrosis of the septal as well as the free lateral wall segments seen in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
Table 3.
Baseline characteristics of patients with and without late gadolinium enhancement.
Table 4.
Clinical outcome during follow-up.
Figure 2.
Kaplan-Meier-curves for prediction of the composite endpoint stratified by presence of late gadolinium enhancement, left ventricular ejection fraction, serum levels of brain natriuretic peptide and troponin I.
Table 5.
Hazard ratios for prediction of composite endpoint*.