Diseases

Heart Muscle Disease

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Cardiomyopathy is a condition where the heart muscle is abnormal. The main types of cardiomyopathy include dilated, hypertrophic and restrictive cardiomyopathy. Cardiomyopathy makes it harder for your heart to pump and deliver blood to the rest of your body.

SYMPTOMS

Pain in the chest, whole body: dizziness, fatigue, or loss of appetite, heart: abnormal heart rhythm, fast heart rate, or murmur,gastrointestinal bloating or fluid in the abdomen, also common: coughing, shortness of breath, swelling in extremities, or weight gain

CAUSES

It occurs when your heart can no longer pump blood to the rest of your body due to coronary artery disease. Blood vessels to the heart muscle narrow and become blocked. This deprives the heart muscle of oxygen. Ischemic cardiomyopathy is a common cause of heart failure.