Other Names for Cardiomyopathy

Other Names for Dilated Cardiomyopathy

• Alcoholic cardiomyopathy. This term is used when overuse of alcohol causes the disease.
• Congestive cardiomyopathy.
• Diabetic cardiomyopathy.
• Familial dilated cardiomyopathy.
• Idiopathic cardiomyopathy.
• Ischemic cardiomyopathy. This term is used when coronary artery disease or heart attack causes the disease.
• Peripartum cardiomyopathy. This term is used when the disease develops in a woman shortly before or after she gives birth.
• Primary cardiomyopathy.

Other Names for Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

• Asymmetric septal hypertrophy
• Familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
• Hypertrophic nonobstructive cardiomyopathy
• Hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy
• Idiopathic hypertrophic subaortic stenosis

Other Names for Restrictive Cardiomyopathy

• Infiltrative cardiomyopathy

Other Names for Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia

• Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy
• Right ventricular cardiomyopathy
• Right ventricular dysplasia