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
Cardiomyopathy, by definition, means the weakening of the heart muscle. The heart is operated by a striated muscle that relies on the autonomic nervous system to function. Cardiomyopathy is diagnosed in four different ways based on what caused the illness and exactly what part of the heart is weakened. The four main types of cardiomyopathy are dilated cardiomyopathy, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, restrictive cardiomyopathy, and arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia. One other category of cardiomyopathy that is diagnosed is “unclassified cardiomyopathy.” Unclassified cardiomyopathy is the weakening of the heart that does not fit into the main four categories.
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Congestive Heart Failure is when the heart's pumping power is weaker than normal. It does not mean the heart has stopped working. The blood moves through the heart and body at a slower rate, and pressure in the heart increases. This means; the heart cannot pump enough oxygen and nutrients to meet the body's needs. The chambers of the heart respond by stretching to hold more blood to pump through the body or by becoming more stiff and thickened. This only keeps the blood moving for a short while. The heart muscle walls weaken and are unable to pump as strongly. This makes the kidneys respond by causing the body to retain fluid and sodium. When the body builds up with fluids, it becomes congested. Many conditions can cause heart failure, and they are Coronary artery disease, Heart attack, Cardiomyopathy, and conditions that overwork the heart.
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here are many causes of cardiomegaly but the most common cause is the blockage of blood supply to the heart. This often results due to coronary artery disease and high blood pressure. Other causes of an enlarged heart are viral infection, abnormal heart valve, peripartum cardiomyopathy, kidney disease, HIV infection, severe anemia, thyroid disorders, previous myocardial infarction, ...
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When expecting a baby, parents hope their child is born with ten tiny toes, ten little fingers, the perfect little button nose, and a smile made out of gold. Most may not think about the vital development and intricacies of their baby's heart. Once the baby is born, parent’s uncertainties may be laid to rest as technology has provided the world with multiple means of being able to detect the most miniscule of abnormalities. One of which includes the electrocardiogram as this device is able to monitor and record the electrical impulses the heart is generating. With the addition of this device, a doctor can detect abnormal rhythms in the heart. By using machines such as the electrocardiogram, examining heart murmurs, and aortic stenosis, the parent will be able to be informed and prepared for any ailments of the heart a child may develop.
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
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
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)
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
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Even though swelling of the entire lower body is not typical of cardiac problems, with no reason