Radiology Lexicon

Last uploaded: November 19, 2024
Id http://www.radlex.org/RID/RID3244
http://www.radlex.org/RID/RID3244
Preferred Name

dilated cardiomyopathy

Definitions
A form of cardiac muscle disease that is characterized by ventricular dilation, contractile dysfunction of the left or both heart ventricles, and congestive heart failure (heart failure, congestive) symptoms. Risk factors include ethanol and tobacco abuse, pregnancy; hypertension; infection; and mutations in the lmna gene encoding lamin type a, a nuclear lamina protein. [MeSH]
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