Cardiomyopathy

Have you ever thought “I’m young and healthy, I don’t have to worry about death. Nothing bad will happen to me bad things just happen to other people.” That is a very common idea that humans perceive to be the reality. However, accidents happen everyday. You never know when you might find yourself in the situation of needing an organ transplant. Organ donation takes one person's organs and tissues after they have passed on for transplantation into another. Therefore contrary to the many…

increased workload, which reduces the amount of oxygenation that can be delivered to the vital organs. CHF is associated with other conditions that affect the heart which includes: long – term untreated high blood pressure, coronary artery disease, cardiomyopathy, myocarditis and endocarditis (Quinn, 2006). CHF can affect…

In patients with ESRD, deaths due to cardiac causes account for nearly 40 to 45 percent of all deaths. Hence cardiac risk stratification remains a challenge for the clinicians. Elevated levels of C reactive protein levels( CRP), indicative of inflammation are high in as much as 70% patients receiving dialysis. Levels of cardiac troponin are also high in ESRD patients, irrespective of the manifestation of the symptoms related to cardiac myopathies. To understand the relation between ESRD and…

"Erin's Law," after Erin Rice. The 20-year-old adult died in 1999 as a result of a negligent emergency room physician at a hospital in West Virginia. This physician filed to correctly diagnose Rice's condition, mistaking pneumonia for dilated cardiomyopathy. Wisconsin state laws stopped Rice's parents from filing a wrongful death suit because their child was considered an…

can be a: poor R wave progression, “a person has a myocardial infarction (MI), normal variant, and/or incorrect lead placement” (Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog). In the dominant R wave in V1 results in, “right bundle branch block (RBBB), cardiomyopathy, hypertrophic and dextrocardia” (Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog). Another abnormality can be the dominant R wave aVR and that means there was an incorrect placement of the leads and an elevated ventricular tachycardia. When there is…

Noonan syndrome is a condition that affects maNy areas of the body. It is characterized by mildly unusual facial features, short stature, heart defects, bleeding problems, skeletal malformations, and many other signs and symptoms. People with Noonan syndrome have distinctive facial features such as a deep groove in the area between the nose and mouth (philtrum), widely spaced eyes that are usually pale blue or blue-green in color, and low-set ears that are rotated backward. Affected individuals…

Summary: Gerhardt, a 58-year-old male, presents to the doctor’s office with a low pulse rate, often times as low as 28bpm, and a feeling of sleepiness. Patient denies dyspnea, chest pain as well as palpitations. Physical examination revealed a high pulse pressure of 70 mm Hg, mid-systolic murmur and an occasional mid-diastolic sound suggestive of structural heart abnormalities. Question: What is an echocardiogram and how is it used diagnostically? Generate: Echocardiography is a modality…

the comparison of control and ATGL-ko mice. The experiment conducted with ATGL-ko resulted in the disorder in the lipid storage and inefficiency in energy metabolism. The accumulation of lipid in the body of ATGL-ko mice led to early death from cardiomyopathy [4]. LPL is also a rate determining enzyme in fatty acid catabolism, working separately with ATGL and HSL. To investigate the role of LPL in fat catabolism, human LPL was injected into the liver of mice for, and LPL-ko mouse was created…

Introduction: In the early 19th century, if you are diagnosed with last stage heart failure you were good as dead with no donor. However, in 1957, at Cleveland Clinic, Dr. Kolff and Dr. Tetsuzo Akutsu brought the concept of an artificial heart to reality through a series of animal implants; in which one such implantation, a dog had survived for approximately 90 minutes. On 28 July 2013, 40-year-old Matthew Green left hospital and headed back home to his family after having his heart replaced…

patient # 2 heart condition name the (disease)? Enlarge heart, heart failure hypertrophic cardiomyopathy because the thickened heart muscle and chambers are thick and stiff and don't allow heart to fill. 5) describe how G.L condition caused syncope following exercise? Exercises increases heart rate and stroke volume so cardiac output is high. But due to the fact that G.L has a hypertrophic cardiomyopathy his cardiac output is low because the lack of heart filling. 6) what is left ventricular…