Clinical Profile of Afro-Caribbean Patients with Angiographycally-proven Non-ischemic Dilated Cardiomyopathy: A Case Series Discussion and Review of the Literature-Juniper Publishers
JUNIPER PUBLISHERS-OPEN ACCESS JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY & CARDIOVASCULAR THERAPY Abstract It has been reported that in Afro-Caribbean patients, the most common cause of heart failure (HF) is non-ischemic dilated cardiomyopathy (NIDCM). The clinical profile of patients with angiographycally diagnosed NIDCM in this population is however, not very well known. We undertook a cases control study to determine which clinical characteristics and traditional cardiovascular risk factors are associated or not with the outcome of angiographycally-proven NIDCM in a population of Afro Caribbean patients utilizing a sample of our Heart Failure with reduced EF (HFrEF) patient’s data base. Among 16 cases with HFrEF (mean age 62 years old) we randomly determined 8 cases with angiographycally -proven NIDCM (Group 1) and compare them with 8 controls with angiographycally-proven ischemic dilated cardiomyopathy -IDCM (Group 2) . The subsequent analysis indicated that although male sex