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Nineteen male patients (mean age 52.4 years, range 39\u201364 years) with symptomatic left ventricular dysfunction (LVD) [ejection fraction (EF) &lt; 50%] and a history of chronic heavy alcohol intake were submitted to a full invasive work\u2010up including right ventricular endomyocardial biopsy (EMB). Counseling aimed at obtaining abstention and clinical follow\u2010up were regularly performed in all patients. The two requisites necessary to define recovery were (1) an increase in left ventricular EF, and (2) improvement of symptoms. The former was defined as a gain in left ventricular EF &gt; 15% from baseline; the latter, as a gain of at least one New York Heart Association (NYHA) functional class. Using these criteria, 9 alcoholic patients (48%) (Group A) improved significantly, while 10 (52%) (Group B) either stabilized or deteriorated at 2 years' follow\u2010up. Group A patients had significantly lower pulmonary artery mean pressure (27.8 mmHg \u00b1 13.3 vs. 40.3 mmHg \u00b1 12.4; p &lt; 0.05) and pulmonary capillary wedge pressure (18.4 mmHg \u00b18.9 vs. 26.5 mmHg \u00b1 7.7; p &lt; 0.05) compared with Group B. All other hemodynamic data did not show statistically significant differences in the two groups. Quantitative evaluation of myocardial hypertrophy and interstitial fibrosis performed on EMB tissue samples using the morphometric approach was not predictive of recovery. Improvement in cardiac performance and functional class was detected in about one\u2010half of patients with ACM who abstained from alcohol, and occurred even in cases presenting with severe LVD. Recovery is associated with significantly lower pulmonary artery and pulmonary wedge pressures. 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