TranslatiOnal Registry for CardiomyopatHies-Plus (TORCH-Plus-DZHK21)
Contacts- Farbod Sedaghat-Hamendani
- Johannes Trebing
Emails Inclusion criteria- Non-ischemic structural cardiomyopathies
Age ≥ 18 or ≤ 80 years
The patient is able to understand the declaration of consent and to sign it dated
At least one of the following diagnoses depending on the specific TORCH-
Plus inclusion / exclusion - SOP:
Dilated Cardiomyopathy (DCM)
family / genetic
inflammatory / persistent myocarditis
idiopathic (after exclusion secondary cause)
left sided systolic dysfunction (EF ≤ 45%)
Left ventricular hypertrophy
sarcomere hypertrophic cardiomoypathia (HCM
- HOCM)
amyloid (AL: light chains
- TTR: transthyretin
- wild type)
Left ventricular non-compaction cardiomyopathy (LVNC)
Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC / D)
Exclusion criteria- The following exclusion criteria have been defined and must be taken from the TORCH-Plus specific inclusion / exclusion - SOP in detail:
Age: <18 years or> 80 years
Patient has other (cardiac) previous illnesses:
uncontrollable arterial hypertension
primary pulmonary arterial hypertension
radiation therapy in the chest area
addiction (drug or alcohol abuse)
life expectancy <1 year due to non-cardiological pre-existing conditions
significant heart valve disease
ischemic diseases and severe congenital heart diseases (including VSD
- Fallot tetralogy
- Ebstein anomaly)
chemotoxic cardiomyopathy
condition after myocarditis
combination of several traditional risk factors (e.g. hypertension and diabetes mellitus)
advanced chronic non-cardiac disease (e.g. chronic hepatitis or HIV)
Tachymyopathy