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Understanding an Enlarged Heart (Cardiomegaly): Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment

MIBHS

Cardiomyopathy Cardiomyopathy is a condition that affects the heart muscle, causing it to become enlarged, thick, or rigid. Excessive Alcohol or Drug Use Long-term abuse of alcohol or certain drugs can weaken the heart muscle, resulting in cardiomyopathy and eventually cardiomegaly.

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Resynchronising the Heart in Heart Failure

Dr. Sanjay Gupta

We now do have some really good medications that help do both and these include: ACE Inhibitors/Entresto Beta Blockers MRAs – Mineraloreceptor antagonists SGLT2 inhibitors And ideally anyone with heart failure should be on all these medications unless they are intolerant or in some way the medications are contraindicated.

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Upon arrival to the emergency department, a senior emergency physician looked at the ECG and said "Nothing too exciting."

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

She was defibrillated and resuscitated. by making it clear to everyone that this is NOT an EKG that one sees with takotsubo cardiomyopathy. The impact of ST-segment elevation on the prognosis of patients with Takotsubo cardiomyopathy. Smith: this ECG and clinical presentation is diagnostic of LAD Occlusion. Lindahl et al.

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The Management of Chronic Disease

Dr. Sanjay Gupta

These include ACE inhibitors (and now a medication called Entresto), beta blockers, Mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists and now a new class of anti-diabetic medications called SGLT2 inhibitors and ideally wherever possible the patient should try and take a little of all of them as opposed to taking lots of one and none of the others.