Items tagged “cardiomyopathy”

Restrictive cardiomyopathy is the least common subtype of cardiomyopathy and is characterized by a marked decrease in ventricular compliance.  Clinical presentation Patients can present with symptoms and signs of left ventricular failure and/or right ventricular failure 9.  Pathology It is p...

Cardiac involvement in hemochromatosis typically occurs with primary hemochromatosis, as the organ is usually spared in the secondary form of the disease. For a general discussion, and for links to other system specific manifestations, please refer to the article on hemochromatosis.  Epidemiol...

Eosinophilic endocarditis, also known as Löffler (Loeffler) endocarditis, is one of the cardiac manifestations of idiopathic hypereosinophilic syndrome. It is also considered a form of cardiomyopathy. Epidemiology There is limited information on the incidence of eosinophilic endocarditis. The ...

Hypertensive heart disease (HHD) refers to a condition covering morphological and physiological changes of the heart, the coronary arteries and the aorta. Epidemiology Over 1.1 billion people worldwide, one-fourth of all men and one-fifth of all women suffer from hypertension and the condition...

Non-dilated left ventricular cardiomyopathy (NDLVC) refers to a cardiomyopathy phenotype that affects the left ventricle and is characterized by non-ischemic myocardial scarring or fatty replacement with or without regional or global wall-motion abnormalities, or in the setting of global left ve...

Inflammatory cardiomyopathy (ICM) refers to inflammation of the myocardium in association with cardiac dysfunction and cardiac remodeling and includes different etiological subtypes 1-4. A persistent or chronic inflammatory process is referred to as chronic inflammatory cardiomyopathy 1-5. Diag...