Cardiomyopathy Flashcards
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What categories can heart failure causes generally be divided into?
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- Cardiac muscle impairment
- Ventricular overload
- Restricted ventricle filling
- Excessively high cardiac output
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Commonest causes of heart failure
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- Ischaemic heart disease
- Hypertension
- Valvular heart disease
- COPD (causes right heart failure)
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Definition of cardiomyopathy
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Disease characterised by myocardial dysfunction due to neither pressure nor volume overload
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Q
Examples of cardiomyopathies
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- Alcoholic cardiomyopathy (dilated myopathy)
* Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
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Cause of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
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Genetic defect in cardiac muscle protein, causes hypertrophy which significantly decreases ventricle filling
