Familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Introduction: Familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Description of Familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (medical condition): Heart damage from thickened heart walls....more »

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Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy:
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Familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: Related Topics

These medical condition or symptom topics may be relevant to medical information for Familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy:

• Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
• Familial
• Familial disorder
• Hypertrophic
• Cardiomyopathy (135 causes)
• MIM
• Autosomal
• Autosomal diseases
• Dominant

Familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: Rare Disease

Office of Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is listed as a "rare disease" by the Office of Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This means that Familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, or a subtype of Familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, affects less than 200,000 people in the US population.
Source - National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy as a Disease

Familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: Another name for Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (or close medical condition association).
  »Introduction: Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
  »Symptoms of Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
  »Treatments for Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: Related Diseases

Familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: Familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is listed as a type of (or associated with) the following medical conditions in our database:

• Heart conditions
• Cardiomyopathy
• Circulatory system conditions
• Heart muscle conditions
• Chest conditions
• Muscle conditions

Causes of Familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Some of the causes of Familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy are included in the list below:

• MELAS
• Cardiomyopathy, familial hypertrophic
• Multiple lentigines syndrome
• Glycogenosis type 2b
• Cardiofaciocutaneous syndrome

See full list of 14 causes of Familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy)

Symptoms of Familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy)

Some of the symptoms of Familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy incude:

• No symptoms
• Breathlessness
• Chest discomfort
• Fainting from exertion
• Pounding heartbeat

See full list of 17 symptoms of Familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy)

Treatments for Familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy)

Treatments for Familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy) include:

• Lifestyle changes
• Medications
  • Beta blockers
  • Calcium channel blockers
  • Antiarrhythmic medications

See full list of 9 treatments for Familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Treatment of Familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: For more treatment information about Familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, see treatment of Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (Familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy)

Familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: Article Excerpts about Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

The second most common form of heart muscle disease is hypertrophic cardiomyopathy . Physicians sometimes call it by other names:... (Source: excerpt from NHLBI, Cardiomyopathy: NHLBI)

Familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: Related Disease Topics

These medical disease topics may be related to Familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy:

• congenital heart disease
• nutritional diseases
• ischemic cardiomyopathy
• hypertensive cardiomyopathy
• alcoholism
• diabetes
• valvular cardiomyopathy
• hyperthyroidism
• muscular dystrophies
• hemochromatosis
• congestive heart failure
• viral myocarditis
• thyroid diseases
• peripartum cardiomyopathy
• double apical impulse
• alcoholic cardiomyopathy

Terms associated with Familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy:

Terms Similar to Familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy:

• Hereditary ventricular hypertrophy
• Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, idiopathic
• Hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM)
• Idiopathic hypertrophic subaortic stenosis (IHSS)

Source - NIH

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