PPT-Cardiomyopathy There are three main types of inherited cardiomyopathy:

The changes to the heart affect the size and shape of the heart and can also affect the way the electrical system makes the heart beat Although inherited cardiomyopathy cannot be cured in most cases living with it . This means it cant pump blood as fast as it should If your heart muscle becomes too weak you may develop heart failure a serious condition that needs special treatment ost people are only mildly affected by cardiomyopathy and can lead relatively n heartache peripartum . cardiomyopathy . د. حسين محمد جمعة . اختصاصي الامراض الباطنة . البورد العربي . كلية طب الموصل . 2010. the term cardiomyopathy (literally, heart muscle disease) has been historically applied to any cardiac dysfunction resulting from a myocardial abnormality. . “[C]. ardiomyopathies. are a heterogeneous group of diseases of the myocardium associated with mechanical and/or electrical dysfunction that usually (but not invariably) exhibit inappropriate ventricular hypertrophy or dilatation and are due to a variety of causes that frequently are genetic. Cardiomyopathies either are confined to the heart or are part of generalized systemic disorders, often leading to cardiovascular death or progressive heart failure-related disability.”. Blake Wachter, Spring 2009. 蛸壺. Case Presentation. 57 year old women presenting to the ED with complaint of 2 hours of crushing pressure-like chest pain, non radiating. She says she feels short of breath and diaphoretic but denies nausea and vomiting. She does not have a family or personal history of heart disease. She denies a life long history of smoking. Her past medical history is significant for obesity, DM II, OA. She takes . | CARDIOLOGY www.nature.com/nrcardio Nature Reviews Cardiology published online 25 March 2014; doi:10.1038/nr cardio.2013.219-c1 CORRESPONDENCE In a very thoughtful News and Views article (Mayosi, Department of internal medicine 1. with course of cardio-vascular pathology. disease of the heart muscle in which the heart loses its ability to. pump blood effectively. the heart muscle becomes . DEFINITION AND CLASSIFICATION. C. ardiomyopathies . are defined as “disorders characterized by morphologically and functionally abnormal myocardium in the absence of any other disease that is sufficient, by itself, to cause the observed phenotype.”. urs valvular causes are unlikely. Infectious, autoimmune and familial etiologies are less likely in the absence of any other 100 beats per minute) is the rule. Exceptions include patients with bradyc Page 1 Rev 2 .0 Patient Information Non - Ischemic Cardiomyopathy 395 respiratory or cardiac failure. Among them, cardiovascular involvement is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality. There are relatively few cases reporting cardiac pISSN 2384-1095eISSN 2384-11 1 Familial dilated cardiomyopathy Description Familial dilated cardiomyopathy is a genetic form of heart disease. It occurs when heart ( cardiac) muscle becomes thin and weakened in at least one chamb TM, 54, WAS ADMITTED to the ED after a syncopal episode that resulted in a head injury. Based on an ECG and echocardiogram find-ings, she was diagnosed with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). After he ProfessorGovernmentexpress SL.NO TITLE PAGE.NO 1. INTRODUCTION 1 2. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 4 3. REVIEW OF LITERATURE 5 4. MATERIALS AND METHODS 41 5. OBSERVATION AND RESULTS 45 6. DISCUSSION 61 7. , MD, MHA. Consultant Heart Failure & Transplantation. Heart failure is an enormous medical and societal burden . More than 2% of the U.S. population, or almost 5 million people, are affected,. It consumes approximately 2% of the National Health Service budget in the United Kingdom, and in the United States, .