Review Article

A Contemporary Systematic Approach to Assessing the Patient with Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction: Multimodal Noninvasive and Invasive Evaluation

Table 1

Differential diagnosis for etiologies of heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF).

Coronary artery disease
Hypertension
Diabetes
Familial cardiomyopathies
Tachycardia-induced cardiomyopathy
Infectious agents: bacterial, viral
Infiltrative disorders
Toxins
Nutritional deficiencies
Electrolyte disorders
Collagen vascular disorders
Endocrine and metabolic diseases
Peripartum cardiomyopathy
Obstructive sleep apnea
Idiopathic

Adapted from Mayo Board Review Textbook, Table 93.5, page 862.