Cardiomyopathy Diagnosis If you have a family history of heart conditions, or if your doctor notices signs of cardiomyopathy during an exam, they may refer you to a heart specialist called a cardiologist. To diagnose cardiomyopathy, the cardiologist will ask about your medical history and that of...
To confirm a diagnosis of cardiomyopathy, your doctor at the UPMC Heart and Vascular Institute's Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Center may order additional tests and procedures to check your heart's function. These tests may include: Blood tests ...
Some types of cardiomyopathy (like HCM, ARVD, and ATTR-CM) can develop due togene mutationsthat you inherit from one or both of your parents. Diagnosis Diagnosis There are a few different ways that cardiomyopathy is diagnosed. Depending on your family and personal health history, your doctor ...
Myocarditis is a medical condition that causes the inflammation of the myocardium which is the muscle layer of your heart’s wall. This disease reduces the heart’s ability to pump out blood as it directly affects the heart muscle and electrical systems in our body. This eventually leads...
Symptoms of Heart Muscle Disease Many people with heart muscle disease, orcardiomyopathy, have no symptoms or only minor symptoms, and live a normal life. Other people develop symptoms, which progress and worsen as heart function worsens.
Diagnosis Treatment Prognosis Lifestyle Changes Comments More Dilated cardiomyopathy causes the heart muscles to progressively enlarge and weaken, reducing the ability of the heart to pump enough blood Dilated cardiomyopathy is a type of a heart muscle disease that causes the heart muscles to...
Pericarditis and Long COVID Effects on Heart How Is Myocarditis Diagnosed? The diagnosis of myocarditis takes into account the patient’s symptoms and physical exam. Other tests include:1 Blood tests, which can indicate elevatedcardiac enzymes, abnormal blood counts, viruses, along with other indicat...
A restrictive cardiomyopathy is a condition in which the walls of the lower chambers of the heart (the ventricles) are abnormally rigid and lack the flexibility to expand as the ventricles fill with blood.
function as efficiently as it once did, leaving it unable to pump an adequate amount of blood to the rest of your body. This is calledheart failure. Hypertension over many years can also cause the left ventricle to dilate and fail (known as dilatedcardiomyopathy), another form of heart ...
Most women receive a diagnosis of heart failure after delivery. But experts believe PPCM is caused by changes to a woman's body during pregnancy. Certain types of heart disease or your genes might also play a role in causing peripartum cardiomyopathy. However, many women with PPCM don't ha...