Announcements:
Different Types of Heart Disease
- Coronary artery disease (also known as coronary heart disease and ischemic heart disease)
- Cardiomyopathy β diseases of cardiac muscle
- Hypertensive heart disease β diseases of the heart secondary to high blood pressure or hypertension
- Heart failure
- Pulmonary heart disease β a failure at the right side of the heart with respiratory system involvement
- Cardiac dysrhythmias β abnormalities of heart rhythm
- Inflammatory heart disease
- Endocarditis β inflammation of the inner layer of the heart, the endocardium. The structures most commonly involved are the heart valves.
- Inflammatory cardiomegaly
- Myocarditis β inflammation of the myocardium, the muscular part of the heart.
- Valvular heart disease
- Cerebrovascular disease β disease of blood vessels that supply blood to the brain (includes stroke)
- Peripheral arterial disease β disease of blood vessels that supply blood to the arms and legs
- Congenital heart disease β heart structure malformations existing at birth
- Rheumatic heart disease β heart muscles and valves damage due to rheumatic fever caused by Streptococcus pyogenes a group a streptococcal infection.
