Cardiomegaly
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| Cardiomegaly | |
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| Classification and external resources | |
 Cardiomegaly on chest X-ray and a pacemaker |
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| ICD-10 | I51.7 |
| ICD-9 | 429.3 |
| DiseasesDB | 30769 |
| MeSH | D006332 |
Cardiomegaly is a medical condition wherein the heart is enlarged.
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Classification[edit]
Dilation or hypertrophy[edit]
Cardiac dilation is where mainly one or more cardiac chambers is enlarged, while cardiac hypertrophy is where mainly cardiac muscle is enlarged.
- Cardiac dilation may result in dilated cardiomyopathy
- Cardiac hypertrophy generally refers to ventricular hypertrophy, such as either:
By location[edit]
- Ventricular enlargement
- Atrial enlargement
Associations[edit]
- 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
- Acromegaly
- Pulmonary valve stenosis
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