Alcoholic cardiomyopathy usually has a poor prognosis, but the case presented here documents a dramatic regression of left ventricular dysfunction in a patient with alcoholic cardiomyopathy.

Chronic patterns of heavy drinking induce end-organ damage including fatty liver and cirrhosis, alcoholic cardiomyopathy and oesophageal varices, some or all of which may be found at autopsy.

The researcher, a global liver damage expert, sounds the alarm over our limited awareness of the connection between drug ...

Objective The effect of moderate excess alcohol consumption is widely debated and has not been well defined in dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM). There is need for a greater evidence base to help advise ...

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It's not unusual to have one or more family members with some form of heart disease. Nonetheless, some people may not even ...

Excessive alcohol consumption damages the liver, causing conditions like fatty liver, hepatitis, or cirrhosis. It weakens the heart, increasing the risk of cardiomyopathy, arrhythmias, and high ...

He drank alcohol socially and had used intranasal ... left ventricular wall thickening is indicative of cardiomyopathy. 1,2 Initially, a diagnosis of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy was considered ...

Alcohol consumption affects the body in several ways and most of the reasons are worrying. Alcohol affects nearly every organ in the body, often with harmful consequences. It impairs brain ...

Introduction: Cardiomyopathy (CM) can occur in patients hospitalized ... Intracardiac thrombus was detected in decreasing order by CM subtype: drug-induced (13.6%), alcohol-induced (7.7%), dilated ...

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is the most common genetic cardiovascular ... 27 When considering a patient for myectomy or alcohol septal ablation (ASA), a complete preprocedural echo study should ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Northwell Staten Island University Hospital (SIUH) has introduced a new program for the diagnosis and ...