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Heart, front view

Heart, section through the middle

• Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD): Treatment provides mechanical circulatory support.
• Dynamic Cardiomyoplasty: A procedure in which a skeletal-muscle flap, created from a patient's thoracic (chest) muscle, is trained to contract often and "wrapped around" the heart to help it contract.

Advanced, severe heart failure requires heart transplant.

How well a patient does depends on many different things, including the severity of the heart problem, what is causing the cardiomyopathy, and how well the patient responds to treatment.

The disorder is chronic (long-term)and the condition may get worse very quickly.

• Heart failure
• Arrhythmia

Go to the emergency room or call the local emergency number (such as 911) if symptoms indicating heart failure develop, or if chest pain is present and not relieved by rest or medication.

Review Date: 05/30/2006
Reviewed By: Alan Berger, MD, Assistant Professor, Divisions of Cardiology and Epidemiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. Review provided byVeriMed Healthcare Network.