Outcomes and predictors of recovery in acute-onset cardiomyopathy: A single-center experience of patients undergoing endomyocardial biopsy for new heart failure

Patients with a smaller LV end-diastolic diameter, higher cardiac index, and lack of IVCD at presentation for acute-onset HF were more likely to have LVEF recovery. IVCD was a poor prognostic marker in all patients presenting with acute cardiomyopathy.