Cardiomyopathy is a heart muscle disease that can be inherited and can make it harder for the heart to pump blood to the rest of the body. It can lead to heart failure or irregular heartbeats ...

Heart failure is a progressive disease in which the myocardium weakens and cannot pump efficiently (systolic dysfunction) or fill adequately (diastolic dysfunction). Obesity has an important influence ...

Peripartum cardiomyopathy shares some clinical features with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy, a disorder caused by mutations in more than 40 genes, including TTN, which encodes the sarcomere protein ...

Liver cirrhosis is associated with several cardiovascular disturbances. These disturbances include hyperdynamic systemic circulation, manifested by an increased cardiac output and decreased peripheral ...