What Is Cardiomyopathy?
Cardiomyopathy
Around the world, there are many people that suffer from cardiomyopathy. The word cardiomyopathy literally means "heart muscle disease." Cardiomyopathy is a serious disease in which the heart muscle becomes inflamed and doesn't work as well as it should. Cardiomyopathy can generally be categorized into two groups; extrinsic cardiomyopathies and intrinsic cardiomyopathies. The most common cardiomyopathies are extrinsic. This is because the most common cause of a cardiomyopathy is ischemia. Ischemic cardiomyopathy is basically weakness in the muscle of the heart due to inadequate oxygen delivery to the myocardium. Coronary artery disease is the most common cause for this lack of oxygen, but anemia and sleep apnea have
Around the world, there are many people that suffer from cardiomyopathy. The word cardiomyopathy literally means "heart muscle disease." Cardiomyopathy is a serious disease in which the heart muscle becomes inflamed and doesn't work as well as it should. Cardiomyopathy can generally be categorized into two groups; extrinsic cardiomyopathies and intrinsic cardiomyopathies. The most common cardiomyopathies are extrinsic. This is because the most common cause of a cardiomyopathy is ischemia. Ischemic cardiomyopathy is basically weakness in the muscle of the heart due to inadequate oxygen delivery to the myocardium. Coronary artery disease is the most common cause for this lack of oxygen, but anemia and sleep apnea have