Ecocardiogram Results Please help

[reynolds34a]

I am a 40 yr. old male diagnosed with some form of Porphyria according to my doctor based on my a skin biopsy. Further testing showed enlarged heart.
Echocardiogram confirmed cardiomyopathy. he characterized it as "global" whatever that means.
His best guess is it's caused by hemochromatosis
(to much iron in the blood)

I asked him to give me these results from the echo :

LVH

IVS - 1.20cm

Port wall - 1.15cm

EF - 35%

He says that I did not catch this "early" and it's pretty bad
Can someone tell me what this means and direct me to a web page that can tell me how far my disease has progressed based on these results ?

[kenkeith]

http://digestive.niddk.nih.gov/index.htm
You can do a search for porphyria and hemochromatosis for information and some insight to the disorder.

LVH is left ventricle hypertrophy and means the pumping chamber is enlarged.  The walls can thickened and less flexible causing impaired contractions to effectively pump blood/oxygen into circulation.  The measurement for pumping functionality is the ejection fraction (EF)...normal is approx. 55 to 75%.

IVS measurement is the dimension of the interventricular septal thicknes...heart wall tha separates left and right chambers...normal is 0.6-1.1 cm.