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What is the difference between restrictive cardiomyopathy and constrictive pericarditis of the heart disease?
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Anatomy: Restriction and constriction both involve limitation to adequate filling of the heart when the heart is relaxing. In restriction, limitation is in the muscle of the heart. In construction, the limitation is in the pericardial sac which surrounds the heart.
Answered 6/25/2013
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I will do my best: No one is answering you. Cardiomyopathy describes disease of heart muscle. If the heart becomes restrictive is how well it can beat by weak contraction of the muscle, this becomes restrictive cardiomyopathy. The pericardium is a sac that surrounds the heart. If it is thickened and become stiff it will restrict the expansion and contraction of the heart in a secondary manner. Best i can do.
Answered 3/26/2013
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