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    Restrictive cardiomyopathy is a rare heart disease characterized by stiffening of the ventricular walls, restricting their ability to fill with blood. It can be genetic or acquired through conditions like amyloidosis, radiation exposure, sarcoidosis, or hemochromatosis. Symptoms are often mistaken for respiratory issues and include difficulty breathing, edema, and heart rhythm problems. Diagnosis involves ruling out other potential causes through tests like echocardiograms and biopsies. While there is no cure, treatment focuses on managing symptoms through diuretics, beta blockers, or transplant in severe cases.

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    Restrictive cardiomyopathy is a rare heart disease characterized by stiffening of the ventricular walls, restricting their ability to fill with blood. It can be genetic or acquired through conditions like amyloidosis, radiation exposure, sarcoidosis, or hemochromatosis. Symptoms are often mistaken for respiratory issues and include difficulty breathing, edema, and heart rhythm problems. Diagnosis involves ruling out other potential causes through tests like echocardiograms and biopsies. While there is no cure, treatment focuses on managing symptoms through diuretics, beta blockers, or transplant in severe cases.

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    RESTRICTIVE

    CARDIOMYOPATHY
    Restrictive cardiomyopathy is a, "... rare heart
    muscle disease in which ventricular filling is
    restricted because of extensive rigidity of
    ventricular walls," (Norris et al., 2020)

    This disease is either genetic or


    acquired. There have been, "more

    CAUSES
    than 60 genes... " (Lu et al., 2018)
    found that can cause restrictive
    cardiomyopathy. Acquired causes
    include amyloidosis, exposure to
    radiation, sarcoidosis, and
    hemochromatosis.

    SIGNS/SYMPTOMS
    Clinical manifestations are difficult to
    pinpoint. They often are mistaken for
    respiratory problems. People often have
    recurrent respiratory infections, and
    difficulty breathing. Signs are often related
    to diastolic dysfunction like hypertension,
    edema, tachycardia, and dysrhythmias,
    (Zangwill & Hamilton, 2009).

    PREVENTION
    There is not a sure way to prevent this
    disease. The main things to do are to get
    regular checkups with a doctor, make the
    necessary lifestyle changes to better your
    health (no smoking, regular exercise, good
    diet), and if needed taking medications that
    help with blood flow.

    DIAGNOSIS
    Diagnosis can take a long time and is very
    difficult. The main diagnostic tests are to rule
    out any other options there could be.
    Echocardiograms rule out constrictive
    pericarditis and cardiac sarcoidosis.
    Electrocardiograms check the heart rhythms
    and a chest x-ray can look at the size of the
    heart. They may also do a biopsy, (Muchtar et
    al., 2017).

    TREATMENT
    There is not really a treatment for this
    disease. The main thing health care
    providers try to do is to stop the disease
    from getting worse and decreasing the
    symptoms. In extreme cases they do a
    heart transplant. The main medications
    they give are diuretics and beta blockers.
    Patients can also be given implanted
    defibrillators, (Lu et al., 2018).
    SOURCES
    Lu, C., Wu, W., Liu, F., Yang, K., Li, J., Liu, Y., Wang, R., Si, N., Gao, P., Liu, Y., Zhang, S., & Zhang, X. (2018). Molecular analysis of
    inherited cardiomyopathy using Next Generation Semiconductor Sequencing Technologies. Journal of Translational Medicine,
    16(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12967-018-1605-5
    Muchtar, E., Blauwet, L. A., & Gertz, M. A. (2017, September 15). Restrictive Cardiomyopathy. Restrictive cardiomyopathy.
    Retrieved March 11, 2022, from https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/epub/10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.117.310982
    Norris, T. L., & Porth, C. (2020). Disorders of cardiac function, heart failure, circulatory shock. In Porth's Essentials of
    Pathophysiology (5th ed., pp. 683–683). essay, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
    Zangwill, Steven, & Hamilton, Robert. (2009). Restrictive cardiomyopathy. Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology, 32.
    https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-8159.2009.02383.x

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