title: [Alcohol-induced cardiac disease].
abstract: Excessive and chronic ethanol consumption exerts deleterious and diffused effects on the myocardium, independent of coronary atherosclerosis, arterial hypertension, valvular disease or congenital heart disease. Although the effects of chronic alcoholism on systolic cardiac function are well known, diastolic involvement has been evaluated only partially. This short review summarizes the experimental and clinical evidence for alcohol-induced cardiac disease.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Cardiologia, Università degli Studi, Foggia opsfco@tin.it
authors.forename: Michele
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Correale
authors.forename: Irma
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Laonigro
authors.forename: Emanuele
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Altomare
authors.forename: Matteo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Di Biase
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology; D000818:Animals; D001145:Arrhythmias, Cardiac / Q000209:etiology; D002310:Cardiomyopathy, Alcoholic / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology; D016757:Death, Sudden, Cardiac / Q000209:etiology; D003971:Diastole / Q000502:physiology; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D018618:Echocardiography, Doppler, Color; D005260:Female; D006323:Heart Arrest / Q000209:etiology; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011379:Prognosis; D013318:Stroke Volume; D013599:Systole / Q000502:physiology; D018487:Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / Q000209:etiology; D016278:Ventricular Function, Right