Question 1

is viral cardiomyopathy deadly?

Accepted Answer

Sometimes: Cardiomyopathy varies greatly in severity. If the heart muscle is extremely weakened, then the cardiomyopathy could be deadly. But in many cases, the cardiomyopathy is mild and should be well tolerated. So it really depends on how severe the problem is.

Question 2

my heart reacts hours after a stressful thing happened. in short, dalayed reaction. i looked it up and i think it's stress cardiomyopathy. should i go to a doctor or it's okay not to? and will this disease lead to a life threatening one?

Accepted Answer

: Although there may well be a mind-heart connection in stress cardiomyopathy, I don't think this is what you experience as episodes have symptoms severe enough to land them in the hospital. I recommend stress management therapy by a mental health professional to help deal with stress&amp; anxiety. Stress cardiomyopathy is a serious condition &amp; most of these patients have a psychiatric history

Question 3

what number of types of cardiomyopathies?

Accepted Answer

3: Dilated, Hypertrophic and Restrictive.

Question 4

can you use stem cells to heal cardiomyopathies in children?

Accepted Answer

Research ongoing: The use os stem cells in a variety of afflictions show promise.Most work with cardiomyopathy is in adults, and stem cell use appears to be helpful but not developed to a point where it is considered more than paliative. It may buy time until a transplant organ can be found, and would only be available in centers using a study protocol.

Question 5

and what cardiomyopathies might result from increased aortic pressure?

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Hypertrophic or...: Hypertrophic or dilated cardiomyopathy can both result with hypertrophy generally occurring first.

Question 6

would a cardiac mri of shown a enlarged heart and cardiomyopathies? what about heart failure?

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Yes: Cardiac MRI would give very accurate info about chamber sizes and motion/function. "Heart failure" per se is a clinical diagnosis.  BUT the cardiac MRI would be able to tell you how well the chamber is squeezing and whether its functioning normally or not.

Question 7

what is  cardiomyopathy?

Accepted Answer

Cardiomyopathy: Carduomyopathy is disease of the heart muscle. There are various types of cardiomyopathy and causes, and the symptoms can vary from minimal or none to severe.

Question 8

what causes cardiomyopathy?

Accepted Answer

Cardiomyopathy: this is a nonspecific term, the problem can be genetic, infectious, inflammatory, toxic, neoplastic, metabolic and idiopathic and I probably forgot some

Question 9

how is cardiomyopathy contracted?

Accepted Answer

Let discuss this: Cardiomyopathy means damaged heart muscle of any type. This damage indicates the heart is not working effectively as a  pump., the most common causes of cardiomyopathy are "ischemic" , due to heart attacks or "viral", due to damage done to the heart muscle from a severe viral attack. Like all viral infections this is contracted from other people but they cause disease  only in susceptible people.

Question 10

what are cures for cardiomyopathy?

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Depends on cause: Some cardiomyopathies can be treated or rarely "cured" but most cannot. Dilated is the most common. Some curable forms include nutritional, lbbb, tachycardia induced, sarcoid. Most can be treated with medication to stabilize the damage. Some cardiomyopathies will spontaneously improve. Others will progress. Restrictive and hypertrophic can also be managed. 400 characters is too short to answer.

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