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Cardiomyopathy is a blanket term for disorders of heart (cardio) muscle (myopathy). They come in all flavors such as dilated (thinning of the myocardium), hypertrophic (thickening of the myocardium), ischemic (some people don’t like this term), infiltrative (sarcoid, lymphoma, amyloid etc) et cetera.
