CME Activities
- CAD in Younger Women: Awareness and Treatment Gaps
- Managing the Risk of Sudden Cardiac Death in Nonischemic Patients
- Landmark Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Recommendations Issued
- Fibrosis and Heart Failure: The Use of Cardiac Biomarkers to Gauge Therapeutic Success
- Study Identifies New Clinical Profile of Stress Cardiomyopathy
- Alcoholic Cardiomyopathy: A Review
- Diagnosis and Management of Peripartum Cardiomyopathy
- Cocaine Cardiomyopathy: A Review
Latest Clinical Briefs in Cardiomyopathy
About Cardiomyopathy
- Cardiomyopathy is a disease of the heart muscle that is classified according to pathophysiologic mechanism or etiology: viral cardiomyopathy; infiltrative cardiomyopathy; postpartum cardiomyopathy; obstructive cardiomyopathy; and when the cause is unknown, primary cardiomyopathy or idiopathic cardiomyopathy. Cardiomyopathy symptoms vary depending on underlying pathology, but a common feature is heart failure. The aim of cardiomyopathy management involves treating the underlying cause of cardiomyopathy as well as the symptoms.