Cardiomyopathy

What is it? Cardiomyopathy is a term to describe a disease that affects the muscles of the heart. Cardiomyopathy occurs when the muscles of the heart become stiff and enlarged and it makes it difficult for the heart to pump blood. In response, it may cause heart failure and the weakened heart will be able to pump blood causing blood to flow inadequately into the lungs and other areas of the body. There are three main type of cardiomyopathy, which are dilated cardiomyopathy, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, and restrictive cardiomyopathy. Dilated cardiomyopathy is the common form of cardiomyopathy, in which the left ventricle it not pumping at its capacity and is not forceful. Therefore, the left ventricle become dilated and does not adequately…

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is the second most common form of heart muscle disease and is the number one cause of sudden cardiac death in young athletes. It affects approximately one in 500 adults in the United States. HCM is a genetically determined heart muscle disease caused by more than 1400 mutations in 11 or more genes encoding proteins of the cardiac sarcomere (Maron & Maron, 2013). HCM is characterized by left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) of various morphologies with a wide…

Introduction / 5p- 1200w The most frequent cause of sudden cardiac death is hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), mainly in young people. It is characterized by thickening in the left ventricle (LV) wall not related to load condition such as aortic stenosis or systemic hypertension (Bing, Knott et al. 2000). It is estimated that approximately one in 500-1000 population. HCM is a complex genetic inherited cardiovascular disease caused by dominate mutation in coding of cardiac sarcomere proteins gene…

Introduction Takotsubo cardiomyopathy was not first well understood by health professionals and was often misdiagnosed as other heart conditions like acute coronary syndrome. Takotsubo cardiomyopathy was not even officially described until 1991 and not until 10 years later was the first documents published. The disease was defined in Japan. This heart condition was thought to only occur in people living in Asia. So, people in Europe and North America did not even recognize that this…

Dilated cardiomyopathy, is “a form of heart disease that weakens the cardiac muscle, preventing the heart from pumping blood efficiently” (“Duchenne and Becker Muscular Dystrophy”). Patients who have Duchenne disease will develop cardiomyopathy and have a lesser life expectancy due to heart failure. Also, with the vast amounts of blood loss and the weakened muscle tissue replaced by fat, it is also a main factor of death for young patients of DMD. According to Barp, “...had led to a greater…

flow by 11% and the GFR by 12% but the use of milrinone did not provide any benefit in diuresis of ADHF. (7) In this study, we collected the data of patient who heart failure and on inotropes and we compared the renal functions before and after the inotropes and the aim of the study was to answer the question: do inotropes improve renal function or not? Methods: Study design and patients: It is a retrospective study of 250 patients who were seen in our hospital center from 2011 through 2016.…

Cardiomyopathy is a disease of the heart muscle. In cardiomyopathy, the heart muscle becomes enlarged and rigid. As this disease worsens, the heart becomes weaker and is less able to pump enough of blood for the body. Cardiomyopathy can be inherited from your parents or close relatives, due to a change in some of the genes in heart muscle proteins. It can also be acquired over time as a result of smoking, diabetes, high blood pressure or some other disease or condition. Cardiomyopathy can lead…

The dilated cardiomyopathy is a progressive and chronic disease of the heart muscles, the most common type of cardiomyopathies, occurring mostly in adults 20 to 60, more common in men, usually starting in the heart's main pumping chamber (left ventricle), the muscles of the heart starts to stretch and to become thinner leading consequently to enlargement inside the chamber of the heart and can spreads to the right ventricle and then to the atria (Bhf.org.uk, 2017). When the heart chambers…

Cardiomyopathy is an unhealthy heart muscle that can't work or contract satisfactorily. Cardiomyopathy leads to the failure of the heart muscle to address the requirements of the body for oxygen-rich blood and evacuation of carbon dioxide and other wastes. There are numerous reasons for cardiomyopathy, yet the final outcome is a heart that is frail and can't keep up a normal discharge part or cardiovascular activity. Symptoms: There may be no symptoms or signs at the beginning of cardiomyopathy.…

Cardiomyopathy is a serious heart disease in the world. Cardiomyopathy is a disease affecting cardiac muscles and its ability to pump the blood to the body (1,2,3). In general population, it affects different ages and gender (1,2,3). There are four major types of cardiomyopathy which are Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), Restrictive cardiomyopathy (RCM), Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy, and Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (1,2,3). Dilated cardiomyopathy is an enlargement of the cardiac…