Dilated Cardiomyopathy is a condition that affects the heart. This condition enlarges the heart and makes it more difficult to pump blood to the rest of the body. This can prove fatal in a few ways. First of all, some parts of the body will not receive enough blood to perform the jobs the rest of the body rely on. second Dilated Cardiomyopathy can cause an irregular heart beat that can lead to a heart attack.
Some of the signs and symptoms are; fatigue, dizziness, abdominal bloating, and exhaustion after little energy exerted.
There are multiple ways to treat Dilated Cardiomyopathy. One way is to take a drug called Digoxin. Digoxin improves force in which the heart contracts by increasing the amount of calcium inside cardiac cells. When Digoxin works it helps dramatically. A heart transplant is an option, but there are not many donors only about 2000 people in the U.S receive heart transplants a year. One more option is to take a drug called beta blockers. Beta Blockers block the effect of adrenaline in your body. This drug is relatively new because when the drug was first made doctors believed that taking adrenaline from a heart that is prone to heart failure would hurt the heart more than help but in recent years doctors reversed their theory and now Beta Blockers are a very common drug for treating cardiomyopathy. Also it is very hard to get rid of Cardiomyopathy most drugs just help you make sure your heart doesn’t fail. For some patients like my mom a pacemaker is installed to try to reverse the effects of cardiomyopathy. A pacemaker is a mini computer and battery that is put near the heart. The pacemaker has three wires that run from the pacemaker to the heart and lead to different parts of the heart. These wires send a signal to the heart and tells it to make the four chambers beat in rhythm to make the heart beat more efficiently.
People who have this condition and have received treatment can live a very healthy life.
Luke
Dilated Cardiomyopathy is a condition that affects the heart. This condition enlarges the heart and makes it more difficult to pump blood to the rest of the body. This can prove fatal in a few ways. First of all, some parts of the body will not receive enough blood to perform the jobs the rest of the body rely on. second Dilated Cardiomyopathy can cause an irregular heart beat that can lead to a heart attack.
Some of the signs and symptoms are; fatigue, dizziness, abdominal bloating, and exhaustion after little energy exerted.
There are multiple ways to treat Dilated Cardiomyopathy. One way is to take a drug called Digoxin. Digoxin improves force in which the heart contracts by increasing the amount of calcium inside cardiac cells. When Digoxin works it helps dramatically. A heart transplant is an option, but there are not many donors only about 2000 people in the U.S receive heart transplants a year. One more option is to take a drug called beta blockers. Beta Blockers block the effect of adrenaline in your body. This drug is relatively new because when the drug was first made doctors believed that taking adrenaline from a heart that is prone to heart failure would hurt the heart more than help but in recent years doctors reversed their theory and now Beta Blockers are a very common drug for treating cardiomyopathy. Also it is very hard to get rid of Cardiomyopathy most drugs just help you make sure your heart doesn’t fail. For some patients like my mom a pacemaker is installed to try to reverse the effects of cardiomyopathy. A pacemaker is a mini computer and battery that is put near the heart. The pacemaker has three wires that run from the pacemaker to the heart and lead to different parts of the heart. These wires send a signal to the heart and tells it to make the four chambers beat in rhythm to make the heart beat more efficiently.
People who have this condition and have received treatment can live a very healthy life.