cardiomyopathy

How to treat ischemic cardiomyopathy? Causes, symptoms, and prognosis

Ischemic cardiomyopathy may be a difficult concept to wrap your head around, but essentially, it’s a term used to describe patients whose heart can no longer pump blood efficiently throughout the rest of body. Ischemic cardiomyopathy often occurs as a result of narrowing blood vessels of the heart restricting vital heart muscle from oxygen-rich blood. ...click here to read more

Restrictive cardiomyopathy in older adults may lead to heart failure or arrhythmia

Restrictive cardiomyopathy in older adults may lead to heart failure or arrhythmia. A condition characterized by abnormal heart muscle, cardiomyopathy comes in different types: restrictive, dilated, and hypertrophic. Restrictive cardiomyopathy is most common in seniors, but it is, in fact, quite rare. In this condition, the heart’s ventricles become rigid because the normal heart muscle ...click here to read more