Items tagged “cardiomyopathy”
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Restrictive 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...
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Takotsubo cardiomyopathy
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04 Oct 2013
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Restrictive cardiomyopathy - cardiac amyloidosis
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07 Oct 2013
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Hemochromatosis (cardiac manifestations)
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.
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Eosinophilic endocarditis
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 ...
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Cardiac amyloidosis - ATTR wild-type
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24 Feb 2020
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Mediastinal lymphoma
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13 Mar 2020
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Midventricular hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
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08 Mar 2021
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Hypertensive heart disease
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...
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Dilated cardiomyopathy
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24 Mar 2022
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Automatic implantable cardioverter defibrillator (AICD)
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06 Oct 2023
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Non-dilated left ventricular cardiomyopathy
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...
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Inflammatory cardiomyopathy
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.
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