Ischemic cardiomyopathy
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What is Ischemic cardiomyopathy?
Ischemic cardiomyopathy is a term that doctors use to describe patients who have congestive heart failure due to coronary artery disease.
"Ischemic" means that an organ (such as the heart) is not getting enough blood and oxygen. "Cardio" means heart and "myopathy" means muscle-related disease.
Alternative Names:
Ischemic heart disease; Cardiomyopathy - ischemic
Posts on Ischemic cardiomyopathy (259)
Is ISCM necessarily degenerative? Also, although I am on 80mg of Betapace 2x a day, do card...
MUGA test. Findings:Review of the great vessels appears normal while the pericardium appear...
- Jul 23, 2007
Hi my name is Amy and I gave birth to a boy on february 23,2007 and a week later I was diag...
- May 07, 2008
Does anyone have any knowledge or know of any treatment for non-ischemic cardiomyopathy oth...
- Oct 27, 2010
what is non-ischemis cardiomyopathy
- Oct 24, 2011
I am a Vietnam Veteran and I had Heart failure in 06 is this considered ischemic?
- Feb 19, 2010
I was diagnosed in 1997 with Cardiomyopathy...is it possible for this condition to simply g...
- Apr 02, 2008
I had a heart attck 5 months back. Thrombolytic measures were resorted to at the hospital. ...
I am a 34 year old female who was diagnosed with ischemic cardiomyopathy in oct.2006. Since...
My husband had stent placed in 1996 for obstruction in left anterior descending artery....
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