Cardiomyopathy

Dilated Cardiomyopathy Bibliography Dilated Cardiomyopathy (DCM) is a type of heart disease in which the chambers of the heart increase in size and the muscle walls thin; the relative thinness of the heart’s walls, compared to the dilated size of the heart, leads to a weakened ability to pump blood to the rest of the body (3). DCM affects one out of 2500 people each year (4) and is one of the leading causes of heart failure in young adults (5). Diagnosis of this disease is difficult because its symptoms

Introduction Diabetic cardiomyopathy, a specific form of cardiomyopathy, is caused by insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and associated hyperglycemia independently of other risk factors such as coronary heart disease (CAD) and hypertension. Diabetic cardiomyopathy was first described in 1972 in four patients who showed heart failure symptoms [1]. The term “diabetic cardiomyopathy” was confirmed in a Framingham Heart Study in 1974 that demonstrated risk of heart failure was 2.4-fold

Introduction. The aim of this case presentation is to improve the nursing knowledge base and to gain a better understanding of the aetiology, diagnosis, nursing management, and medical therapy used in the treatment of peripartum cardiomyopathy. I have based this case presentation on a 38year old lady with a fictitious name of Agnes. She is a married lady with no medical or surgical history. She is a non-smoker and non-drinker. This was her first pregnancy and was relatively uncomplicated until week

Other forms of secondary restrictive cardiomyopathy include scleroderma, Friedreich’s Ataxia, hemochromatosis, glycogen storage disease and sarcoidosis. Chemotherapy and radiation therapy used to treat cancer can also cause restrictive cardiomyopathy. Sarcoidosis is caused by the infiltration of granulomas in the heart and other tissues of the body. Lungs and lymph nodes are the main organs targeted by this disease, but no organ is spared as it also affects the central nervous system and skin. In

Cardiomyopathy refers to diseases of the heart muscle (NHLBI, ___) In cardiomyopathy; the heart muscle becomes enlarged, thick and rigid. The disease causes the heart to become weak and less able to pump blood through the body and maintain a normal electrical rhythm. His will lead to heart failure, or irregular heartbeats called arrhythmias. Heart failure causes fluid to build up in the lungs, ankles, feet or abdomen. Mr. P care approach will depend on the extent of danger to the heart muscle, dependent

minutes later. High School track runner dies after finishing second in a race. The sad truth is 1 out of 50,000 young adults will fall victim to Sudden Death. Most sudden deaths have been linked to a thickened, enlarged heart called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), or by a condition that disturbs the rhythm of the heart called an arrhythmia. When one sweats, a significant amount of magnesium is lost. Magnesium

Introduction Congenital heart diseases (CHD) are defects in the heart that are present from birth and affect 8 in every 1,000 newborns each year (National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, 2011). Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is the most common congenital disease of the heart (O’Hanlon and Pennell, 2009) and the most common cause of sudden cardiac death (SCD) among apparently healthy athletes and younger generations (Maron, 1995; Maron and Maron, 2013). HCM is a condition in which there is abnormal

the myocardium of the heart (kumar and Clarke). They can be differentiated into groups with different characteristics: dilated, hypertrophic, restrictive and arrythmyogenic right ventricular hypertrophies (report of the 1995 WHO). Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), a familial condition affecting the heart, is characterised by unexplained and variable hypertrophy of the left ventricular wall and the inter-ventricular septum in the absence of any alternate causes such as aortic stenosis or hypertension

I chose to summarize this review article to understand the reasons behind exercising a patient with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). Prior to the reading, my knowledge of stress echos only covered the bases of diagnosing coronary artery disease. This review focuses on the patients subjective complaints and its correlation with sudden death from HCM. It’s common for us to see patient with HCM and to preform valsalva maneuvers to check for LVOT obstruction with increased velocities. However,

However, younger men and women can also be affected. Majority of the Clinicians usually suspect that hyper release of catecholamine is the actual reason as to why people suffer from TTS. Furthermore, the pathophysiology that mainly causes cardiomyopathy is not well known; however, under normal physiological environment anything that causes stress stimulates sympathetic nervous system and it responds by triggering the release of noradrenalin and adrenaline (catecholamine). This response result