Cardio myopathy

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Bed rest deconditioning leads to physiological cardiac atrophy, which may compromise left ventricular (LV) filling during orthostatic stress by reducing diastolic untwisting and suction. To test this hypothesis, myocardial-tagged magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was performed, and maximal untwisting rates of the endocardium, midwall, and epicardium were calculated by Harmonic Phase Analysis (HARP) before and after −6° head-down tilt bed rest for 18 days with (n = 14) and without exercise…

This book reviews the basic knowledge about the cardiomyopathies and re-enforces the well-known definitions and classification of cardiomyopathies and specific heart muscle diseases, respectively. It emphasizes the importance of maintaining the classification into hypertrophic, dilated and restrictive cardiomyopathies, even though there are exceptions. The term "realisations" in the title is used in the sense of "achievements" and alludes to the progress in the understanding of heart muscle…

If you have hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, or HCM, your heart muscle gets too thick. This makes it harder for your heart to do its job.

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Heart Failure Resource Center - - These conditions and risk factors raise your odds for developing heart failure.