Restrictive cardiomyopathy (RCM) represents a heterogeneous group of myocardial diseases characterized by decreased left ventricular compliance, leading to an increase in end-diastol...
Patients typically present with symptoms of heart failure including dyspnea, orthopnea, paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea (PND), ascites, lower extremity swelling, generalized weakness, an...
RCM treatment is aimed at lowering left ventricular filling pressures without affecting cardiac output adversely.
Therapeutic modalities aimed at treating the underlying cause...
Change in degree of dyspnea or NYHA class
Edema, ascites
Daily weights
I42.5 Other restrictive cardiomyopathy
415295002 Restrictive cardiomyopathy
90828009 Primary restrictive cardiomyopathy
415509000 Secondary restrictive cardiomyopathy
233878008 Familial r...
Maintain high index of suspicion to diagnose RCM, especially in cases of recurrent heart failure decompensation. The most common cause of RCM is cardiac amyloidosis; increased wall thi...
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