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Etiologies of cardiomyopathy and heart failure

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Evidence for a final common pathway for disorders of the myocardium (pages 246 and 320–330).

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Figure 1: Normal and cardiomyopathic hearts.
Figure 2: Sarcomere and cytoskeleton.

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  1. Departments of Pediatric (Cardiology), Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas

    Jeffrey A. Towbin & Neil E. Bowles

  2. Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital,, Houston, Texas

    Jeffrey A. Towbin & Karla R. Bowles

  3. Cardiovascular Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas

    Jeffrey A. Towbin

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Towbin, J., Bowles, K. & Bowles, N. Etiologies of cardiomyopathy and heart failure. Nat Med 5, 266–267 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1038/6474

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