In addition, cardiac magnetic resonance imaging may help to rule out other mimickers of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, such as hypertrophic cardiomyopathy or cardiac amyloidosis.
Dr Sonya Babu-Narayan, Clinical Director at the British Heart Foundation and clinical cardiologist, said: "Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is a severe, potentially life-threatening condition ...
Symptoms of Left- vs. Right-Sided Heart Failure Depending ... Diabetes Smoking Obesity Cardiomyopathy (disease of the heart muscle) An inactive lifestyle Right-sided heart failure is often caused ...
is a form of restrictive cardiomyopathy that can result in significant progressive diastolic congestive heart failure. As the name suggests, amyloid cardiomyopathy results from the accumulation of ...
Background. A 54-year-old postmenopausal woman presented with retrosternal chest pressure, nausea, and vomiting of 4 h duration. Her medical history included hypertension (treated with metoprolol ...
The symptoms of Takotsubo cardiomyopathy are the same as those seen in myocardial ischemia and congestive heart failure. Chest pains typical of angina can also occur. Heart failure causes ...