Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: Introduction
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy:
The second most common form of heart
muscle disease is hypertrophic
cardiomyopathy . Physicians sometimes call it by other names: idiopathic
hypertrophic ... more about Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: Heart damage from thickened heart walls.
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causes, and treatments of Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is available below.
Symptoms of Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
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Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: Complications
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Misdiagnosis and Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
Heart attacks can be undiagnosed: Although the most severe symptoms of heart attack are hard to miss,
there are varying degrees of severity.
It is altogether too common for people to die...read more »
Heart attacks can be overdiagnosed: Although many people die from heart attacks, there are also
many cases where people fear that they have a heart...read more »
Rare heart condition often undiagnosed: The rare heart condition called long QT syndrome can lead to episodes of palpitations
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Heart attack can be over-diagnosed: Although heart attack is often undiagnosed,
leading to fatality, it can also be over-diagnosed.
People become...read more »
Blood pressure cuffs misdiagnose hypertension in children: One known misdiagnosis issue
with hyperension, arises in relation to the simple equipment used to test blood pressure.
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Hypertension misdiagnosis common in children: Hypertension is often
misdiagnosed in adults (see misdiagnosis of hypertension), but its misdiagnosis is even more likely in children.
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Prognosis for Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
Prognosis for Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy:
Variable. 10-year risk of sudden death is about 20%.
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Article Excerpts about Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
The second most common form of heart
muscle disease is hypertrophic
cardiomyopathy . Physicians sometimes call it by other names: idiopathic
hypertrophic subaortic stenosis (IHSS), asymmetrical septal hypertrophy (ASH),
or hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM).
In hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, the growth and arrangement of muscle fibers
are abnormal, leading to thickened heart walls. The greatest thickening tends to
occur in the left ventricle
(the heart's main pumping chamber), especially in the septum ,
the wall that separates the left and right ventricles. The thickening reduces
the size of the pumping chamber and obstructs blood flow. It also prevents the
heart from properly relaxing between beats and so filling with blood.
Eventually, this limits the pumping action.
(Source: excerpt from NHLBI, Cardiomyopathy: NHLBI)
Definitions of Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy:
A form of CARDIAC MUSCLE disease, characterized by left and/or right ventricular hypertrophy (HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR; HYPERTROPHY, RIGHT VENTRICULAR), frequent asymmetrical involvement of the HEART SEPTUM, and normal or reduced left ventricular volume. Risk factors include HYPERTENSION; AORTIC STENOSIS; and gene MUTATION (FAMILIAL HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY).
- (Source - Diseases Database)
A disorder in which the heart muscle is so strong that it does not relax enough to fill with the heart with blood and so has reduced pumping ability
- (Source - WordNet 2.1)
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is listed as a "rare disease" by the Office of
Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health
(NIH). This means that Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, or a subtype of Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy,
affects less than 200,000 people in the US population.
Source - National Institutes of Health (NIH)
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