ABSTRACT

Introduction .......................................................................... 363 Idiopathic Cardiomyopathy ................................................. 364 Mitochondrial Myopathy ..................................................... 366 Diabetes Mellitus ................................................................. 367 Acquired Mutations ............................................................. 368 References............................................................................. 368

INTRODUCTION

A lot of new evidence has been reported about various cardiovascular diseases due to recent progress in molecular biology. Mitochondrial DNA mutation is one of the themes and has been investigated in patients with cardiomyopathy.