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DISORDERS OF CARDIAC FUNCTION study guide

If you have any test reviews, homeworks, guides, anything school related that you think can be posted on this website, reach out to me at makingschooleasier@gmail.com   DISORDERS OF CARDIAC FUNCTION CARDIOMYOPATHIES : muscle associated with d/os of myocardial performance, which may be mechanical (HF) or electrical (arrhythmias); enlarged LV wall with reduced chamber size, abnormal diastolic filling time  dec SV Chest pain, dyspnea, syncope: when outflow obs inc, afib (most common arrhythmia) PRIMARY CARDIOMYOPATHIES Genetic Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM) : unexplained left ventricular hypertrophy w/ disproportionate thickening of the ventricular septum, abnormal diastolic filling, cardiac arrhythmias, and intermittent LV obstruction. Autosomal dominant disorder caused by mutations in genes encoding proteins of the cardiac sarcomere (ex/ muscle fibers) Massively hypertrophied LV w/ reduced chamber size and dec in SV resulting from impaired diastolic filling