Cardiomegaly Information
Cardiomegaly is a medical condition wherein the heart is enlarged. It is generally categorized in the following manner:
- Cardiomegaly due to dilation
- Cardiomegaly due to ventricular hypertrophy
Associations
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- Amyloidosis
- Anemia
- Aortic coarctation
- Athletic heart syndrome
- Atrial septal defect
- autonomic insufficiency
- Chagas' disease
- Cocaine
- Congestive heart failure, primary or caused by the other conditions listed here
- Connective tissue disease, e.g. SLE
- Coxsackie viral myocarditis
- Dilated cardiomyopathy, as in alcoholism or thiamine deficiency
- Friedreich's ataxia
- Gigantism
- Hemochromatosis
- Hypertensive heart disease
- Hyperthyroidism
- Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- Hypoalbuminaemia, e.g. malnutrition, chronic liver disease
- hypothyroidism
- Morquio's Syndrome and other related dwarfism diseases
- Obesity
- Patent ductus arteriosus (PDA)
- PCOS, as in Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome
- Pulmonary Vein Stenosis
- Radiation
- Sickle-cell disease
- Type II glycogen storage disease (Pompe disease)
- Uraemia
- Myocardial fibroelastosis
- Kawasaki disease
- Pericardial effusion
- Tumors of the heart
- Drugs such as sulphonamides and doxorubicin
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