HEART FAILURE

myocardial disease (systolic dysfunction, causing low output failure):

ischaemic heart disease [various mechanisms contribute to CHF]

dilated cardiomyopathy [various causes, including alcohol and beriberi]

infiltrations, eg. haemochromatosis, sarcoidosis, amyloidosis

arrhythmias (tachy or brady)

myocarditis

muscular dystrophy

excessive workload (high output failure):

severe anaemia

aortic or pulmonary incompetence

mitral or tricuspid incompetence

thyrotoxicosis [vasodilatation, tachycardia]

shunts or fistulae, eg. extensive Paget's disease, ASD, VSD, PDA

fluid overload

vasodilators

beriberi [thiamine deficiency; � beriberi cardiomyopathy]

inflow obstruction:

mitral stenosis

tricuspid stenosis

pericardial effusion or tamponade

constrictive pericarditis

atrial myxoma

diastolic dysfunction:

hypertensive cardiomyopathy [concentric hypertrophy]

ischaemic heart disease [various mechanisms contribute to CHF]

aortic stenosis [causing myocardial hypertrophy]

restrictive cardiomyopathy

hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

endocardial fibrosis

outflow obstruction:

aortic or pulmonary stenosis

pulmonary embolism

systemic hypertension

pulmonary hypertension

hyperviscosity syndromes

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