Applicability and performance of heart failure prognostic scores in dilated cardiomyopathy: The real-world experience of an Italian referral center for cardiomyopathies

The performance of heart failure (HF) risk models is validated in the general population with HF but in specific aetiological settings, and specifically in dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), has scarcely been explored. We tested eight of the main prognostic scores used in HF in a large real-world population of patients with DCM.