Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is a progressive heart muscle disease with left ventricular (LV) or biventricular dilatation and systolic dysfunction. 1 Structural or functional abnormalities of the myocardium accompanied with DCM potentially lead to life-threatening events such as arrhythmias, heart failure (HF) and sudden cardiac death. 2 Decades of research have revealed multiple causes of DCM,
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