Cardiomyopathy in Saudi Arabia: The King Khalid University Hospital Experience

Abstract

This is a study of the prevalence and clinical presentation of 112 cases of cardiomyopathy seen at a large teaching hospital in Riyadh. All patients satisfied the diagnostic criteria for cardiomyopathy defined by the World Health Organization/International Society and Federation of Cardiology (WHO/ISFC) in 1980. There were 101 patients with dilated cardiomyopathy, eight with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, and three with restrictive cardiomyopathy. The clinical aspects of these patients form the subject of this study.

Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy in Saudi Arabia: A Systematic Review of the Epidemiological, Clinical, and Imaging Features

“…Consequently, 55 full-text articles were assessed for eligibility, of which 51 were excluded (25 were irrelevant, 17 were single case reports, 7 were review articles, 1 was an abstract without extractable data, and 1 was a letter to the editor). Three studies [ 16 , 29 , 30 ] and one abstract [ 31 ] were included as they met the inclusion criteria for review. The PRISMA flowchart is depicted in Fig.…”

“…Two of the studies were relatively old, including Guindy et al . (1984) [ 29 , 30 ] and Al-Nozha et al (1988), while the other two were recent, i.e . by Ahmed et al .…”

“…included patients with restrictive and dilated cardiomyopathy; however, non-HCM cases were excluded from the analysis. The diagnosis of HCM was made by echocardiographic evidence with or without clinical assessment in three studies [ 16 , 29 , 31 ], while cardiac catheterization was utilized in the fourth study [ 30 ]. While clinical findings were the primary outcome of all studies, three studies included echocardiographic findings, two included ECG findings, and only one reported hematological findings (Table 1 ).…”

“…This was reported in all of the included studies with the exception of the small-sized (N=8) series of Al-Nozha et al . [ 29 ], which reported a higher female ratio. This observation is consistent with the male predominance in HCM, representing approximately 60% of the patients as reported in several comparative and observational studies and case series [ 35 - 38 ].…”