How To Use myopathy In A Sentence
- He later presented with cardiomyopathy with severe aortic insufficiency due to the destruction of the aortic valve prosthesis by sterile fibrinous vegetation.
- If a genetic cause of cardiomyopathy is suspected, it is important for other close family members (parents, siblings, children) to have their hearts checked by a cardiologist, to ensure that they do not have the same or a related heart condition (even if they do not have any symptoms of heart problems). Cardiomyopathy
- The heart with noncompaction can be dilated with decreased pumping function as in dilated cardiomyopathy (see above) or can have normal pumping function. Cardiomyopathy
- The brothers have neuromuscular myopathy, a degenerative condition that severely weakens the legs. The Sun
- One author thought it should be lumped in with ‘bent spine disease’ and grouped as axial myopathy (central spinal muscle disease).
- If a physician suspects hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, an echocardiogram confirms the diagnosis.
- Cocaine and amphetamine have been associated with non-cardiogenic pulmonary oedema and a dilated cardiomyopathy.
- Van Driest SL, Ackerman MJ, Ommen SR, Shakur R, Will ML, et al. (2002) Prevalence and severity of "benign" mutations in the beta-myosin heavy chain, cardiac troponin T, and alpha-tropomyosin genes in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
- Studies suggest that NRTI treatment of HIV patients causes mitochondrial myopathy, including ragged red fibers, cardiac myopathy with cardiac dilation and failure, neuropathy and lactic acidosis.
- He added that "glycogen-associated myopathy is not the cause of most cases of the common postural and movement disorder known as shivers in draft horse and many other breeds. TheHorse.com News