ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the nonischemic causes for cardiomyopathy encountered commonly in the elderly. The various presenting features as well as prevalence of the various types of nonischemic cardiomyopathy in older patients differ in a number of respects from those of younger patients. Heart failure with normal ejection fraction, dilated cardiomyopathy, and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, with or without obstruction to outflow, are reviewed with emphasis placed on the unique pathophysiology, morphology, presentation, and treatment of these entities in this age group.
