Cardiomegaly

Cardiomegaly
Classification and external resources
ICD-10	I51.7
ICD-9	429.3
DiseasesDB	30769
MeSH	D006332

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
  • Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH)
  • Right ventricular hypertrophy (RVH)
  • Left atrial enlargement

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

See also

• cardiomyopathy
• hypertrophy

External links

• American Heart Association
• KomoTV
• The Rev