Ventricular function in noncardiacs with alcoholic fatty liver: role of ethanol in the production of cardiomyopathy

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Abstract

Since many patients with cardiomyopathy have a history of chronic ethanolism often associated with malnutrition, we have evaluated left ventricular (LV) function in alcoholics with fatty liver, who had no clinical evidence of cardiac or nutritional disease.

Authors

Timothy J. Regan, Gilbert E. Levinson, Henry A. Oldewurtel, Martin J. Frank, Allen B. Weisse, Christos B. Moschos