Cardiomyopathy - a group of diseases, which primarily affected the muscle of the heart and are manifested dysfunction of the heart muscle. There are three types of cardiomyopathy:
dilated
hypertrophic
restrictive
They have different clinical manifestations, different weather, but they have common symptoms, allowing them to unite under a common name:
reasons for them in most cases unknown
no signs of inflammatory reaction in the body
increased the size of the heart
there is a tendency to form blood clots
Heart failure caused by cardiomyopathy, treated with great difficulty.