Can the heart shrink when it gets bigger?

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2025-05-23 18:45:43 Views: 93 times

Heart enlargement is usually unable to shrink, details are as follows:

Can the heart shrink when it gets bigger?

heart enlargement is considered to be dilated cardiomyopathy, coronary atherosclerotic heart disease, acute myocardial infarction and other diseases, resulting in myocardial cell damage, myocardial compensatory hypertrophy caused by irreversible damage, generally unable to shrink. However, patients still need active intervention treatment to delay further enlargement of the heart, alleviate clinical symptoms, improve prognosis.

Patients need to relax mood, can go to the hospital cardiovascular medicine, do physical examination, ECG, coronary angiography, etc., to confirm the diagnosis.



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