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Cardiomyopathy is a general word used to indicate heart muscle disease. Some cardiomyopathies have well defined causes, while the reason for other cardiomyopathies is unknown. Symptoms of cardiomyopathy are not specific, and many heart and lung diseases produce symptoms and clinical findings similar to HCM. The diagnostic tests recommended will help differentiate HCM from the following:
In atrial fibrillation the normally coordinated electrical activity in the upper heart chambers, the right atrium and left atrium, is lost. The muscle of these chambers begins to wiggle like a "bag full...
Heart failure is a condition, caused by an abnormality in the structure or the function of the heart, in which it is unable to pump normal quantities of blood to the tissues of the body.
Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is a myocardial disease, which is disease of the heart muscle that is characterized by dilation (enlargement) of the cardiac chambers and markedly reduced muscle contraction....
Elevated blood pressure is an increase in the systolic or diastolic arterial blood pressure (ABP). A systolic ABP should not exceed 170 to 180 mm Hg and diastolic should not exceed the 100 to 110 mm Hg...
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