[Cardiac involvement in chronic alcoholism]

Electrocardiographic examinations of thirty- to fifty-year-old patients with chronic alcoholism showed a variety of ECG alterations. Similar results obtained for cardiomyopathies suggest, at least for some of the sufferers from alcoholism included in this investigation, cases of alcoholic's cardiomyopathy. It is only by abstinence from alcohol that a complete regression of alcoholic's cardiomyopathy may be brought about. Anyway, it is recommended that sufferers from chronic alcoholism should be cardiologically examined at certain intervals of time.