WHAT IS A CARDIOMYOPATHY?
Cardiomyopathy is a disease of the heart muscle, causing the heart muscle to become enlarged, thick or rigid. In rare cases, the muscle tissue in the heart is replaced with scar tissue.
As cardiomyopathy worsens, the heart becomes weaker. It 's less able to pump blood through the body and maintain a normal electrical rhythm. This can lead to heart failure and rhythm problems. In turn, heart failure can cause fluid to build up in the lungs, ankles, feet, legs or abdomen. WHAT CAUSES CARDIOMYOPATHY?
The different types of the disease have different causes, signs, symptoms and outcomes.
Cardiomyopathy can be acquired or inherited. "Acquired" means you weren 't born with the disease but you developed it due to another disease, condition or factor. "Inherited" means your parents passed the gene for the
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Right entricular dysplasia. (National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute)
SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS Dilated cardiomyopathy may build up over several years and not cause significant problems. However, over time the enlarged heart gradually weakens. This is called heart failure. Heart failure has several causes and cardiomyopathy is one of them.
Signs and symptoms of heart failure include:
Fatigue
Weakness
Shortness of breath
Coughing particularly when lying down
Swelling of your legs and feet, as a result of fluid building up - this may also affect other parts of your body
Weight gain due to body retaining fluid
Irregular heartbeats, which can be serious and sometimes life threatening. HOW IS CARDIOMYOPATHY DIAGNOSED?
Most people with symptoms related to the function of the heart will have an electrocardiogram (ECG), chest x-ray and echocardiogram (Echo), which allows the structure and function of the heart to be examined.
Some blood tests may also be required. From these tests, the diagnosis of cardiomyopathy can be made. HOW IS CARDIOMYOPATHY
According to “Heart Disease and Marfan Syndrome” (n.d.), if the disease is suspected, the doctor will perform a physical exam of the eyes, heart and blood vessels, and muscle and skeletal system. After, a history of symptoms and information about family members will be obtained to determine if you have it. A chest x-ray, an electrocardiogram, and an echocardiogram can also be used to evaluate the heart and blood vessels to detect heart rhythm problems. A transesophageal echocardiogram may also be used, along with an MRI, CT scan, or a slit lamp eye exam to check for dislocated lenses. The various symptoms of Marfan syndrome allow doctors to diagnose the condition and provide treatments that can help the
This is induced by the sliding of the cardiac myofibril. Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy, also known as HCM, is a type of heart disease that affects the Cardiac Muscles and Cardiac Muscle cells. This disease occurs if the Cardiac Muscle cells enlarge, which causes the wall of the heart’s ventricles (most often the left ventricle) to thicken. It can also cause stiffness in the ventricles, as well as mitral valve and cellular changes. On a cellular level, HCM can cause the cells to become disorganised and lost.
Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: Effects on Young Athletes Alyssa Trimm 130568370 Wilfrid Laurier University Dr. Kalmar KP 122 Section A
The study of cardio physiology was broken up into five distinct parts all centering on the cardiovascular system. The first lab was utilization of the electrocardiogram (ECG). This studied the electrical activities of the heart by placing electrodes on different parts of the skin. This results in a graph on calibrated paper of these activities. These graphs are useful in the diagnosis of heart disease and heart abnormalities. Alongside natural heart abnormalities are those induced by chemical substances. The electrocardiogram is useful in showing how these chemicals adjust the electrical impulses that it induces.
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is an inherited disease that affects the cardiac muscle of the heart, causing the walls of the heart to thicken and become stiff. [1] On a cellular level, the sarcomere increase in size. As a result, the cardiac muscles become abnormally thick, making it difficult for the cells to contract and the heart to pump. A genetic mutation causes the myocytes to form chaotic intersecting bundles. A pathognomonic abnormality called myocardial fiber disarray. [2,12] How the hypertrophy is distributed throughout the heart is varied. Though, in most cases, the left ventricle is always affected. [3] The heart muscle can thicken in four different patterns. The most common being asymmetrical septal hypertrophy without obstruction. Here the intraventricular septum becomes thick, but the mitral valve is not affected. Asymmetrical septal hypertrophy with obstruction causes the mitral valve to touch the septal wall during contraction. (Left ventricle outflow tract obstruction.) The obstruction of the mitral valve allows for blood to slowly flow from the left ventricle back into the left atrium (Mitral regurgitation). Symmetrical hypertrophy is the thickening of the entire left ven...
Heart disease can take many forms. The form of heart disease I am focusing on is coronary disease. Different arteries supply different areas of the heart with oxygenated blood. If one or more of these arteries become narrowed or clogged as a result of coronary artery disease, or atherscelorosis the artery cannot fully supply the part of the heart it is responsible for. The heart is an effective pump only when good blood supply is maintained to all heart muscles.
Various causes of cardiomegaly are usually the result of high blood pressure (hypertension) or coronary artery disease. This occurs when the heart does not pump blood effectively resulting in coronary heart failure.
Congested Heart Failure is a chronic condition that affects pumping power of the heart muscle. Sometimes it is just referred to “heart failure”, sometimes people without specifying can understand different. Congested heart Failure specify talks about where the fluids build up around the heart causing it to pump inefficiently. In the heart we have four chambers in which the ventricle is the one that pumps blood to the organs. Congested Heart Failure also known as CHF starts to develop when the ventricles cannot pump enough blood to the whole body. As that starts to happen the blood starts to back up inside the lungs, liver, abdomen, and lower body. As everyone knows CHF can be life threatening.
Heart is a muscle that pumps blood to every organ to maintain oxygen and nutrients to provide body to energy in order to keep health body. It's about the size of your fist, which is located in the left of center in our chest. If it does not work properly, it causes what is known heart failure, a disease that occurs when heart does pump blood adequately to meet body’s need. Heart failure is divided two main parts, right sided heart failure and left sided heart failure. Patient with right sided heart failure experience symptoms such as swelling in the feet
As diagnosis may take a greater amount of time to develop or emerge, treatment may not be an option. In some cases the child may require a heart transplant. A young boy by the name of Joseph Gonzalez-Sales, age 10, was a child that required a heart transplant due to dilated cardiomyopathy (Kotojarvi 1). Joseph waited about 2 years to receive his procedure and finally underwent surgery to obtain his new and healthy heart on his 11th birthday (Kotojarvi 1). Other children, in not as consequential cases, can receive some form of treatment that may not require a procedure. Treatment may vary from patient to patient and is directed toward their symptoms and diagnosis (“Pediatric Cardiomyopathy” 7). Unfortunately many drug therapies and surgical
Heart failure (HF) is a complex clinical pathological syndrome characterised by symptom of shortness of breath , fatigue and the sign of rales on chest ascultation and peripheral pitting oedema also termed as sign of congestion. It is caused by the structural and functional diffect of the heart(1) . It is initally characterised by the dysfunction of the levt ventricle which lead to impairing the filling functin of the ventricles or unable to produce enough contractility of the left ventricle to maintain the cardiac output to meet the demand of the peripheira tissue (2). HF is the major globle public health problen causing cardiovascular morbidity and motality with socio-economic burden. (3)
Various physical exams and screenings are able to be given that accurately assess the condition of someone’s cardiovascular system as a whole. The Mayo Clinic talks about how treadmill stress tests are able to be given to patients to examine the level of physical activity your body is able to handle before going into some type of cardiac arrest. Doctors measure your heart rhythm, blood pressure, and breathing during this test which gives them insight on what your body is able to handle. Chest X-rays are able to show images of your heart to see if it is misshapen or enlarged in any way (cardiomyopathy enlarges the heart or shrinks it). There are many others, but one of the most impactful tests could be the genetic screenings. Most of the time when someone is diagnosed with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (or any type of cardiomyopathy), the condition is hereditary and runs on the fathers side of the family. Sometimes this isn’t the case, and there is just a mutation or deformation in an individual’s heart. Getting your heart tested is extremely important in the fact that it could affect your loved ones just as much as you. If the disease goes undetected, it could ruin not just a person but their family as a whole. All of this could be prevented if everyone could just get tested and never let the disease take someone’ life unknowingly
Cardiomegaly is a descriptive term used for the finding of an enlarged heart and is not a disease itself. Cardiomegaly is a disorder and condition which the heart has enlarged to the point that it is 50 percent larger than the diameter of the surrounding rib cage. It can sometimes be nonpermanent due to stress on the body, for example like pregnancy, obesity, other medical conditions etc., due to statistics the number of people diagnosed with heart diseases is 11.3%. The amount
Heart disease describes a range of conditions that affect your heart. Diseases under the heart disease umbrella include blood vessel diseases, heart rhythm problems, and heart defects. The major cause of this is a build-up of fatty plaques in the arteries. Plaque build-up thickens and stiffens the vessel walls, which can inhibit blood flow through the arteries to organs and tissues.
Even though swelling of the entire lower body is not typical of cardiac problems, with no reason