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Joined: Fri Jul 18, 2008 10:59 am Posts: 4129 Location: Leicestershire, UK
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In humans hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is generally caused by a virus although sometimes there is a genetical predisposition. It can be medically treated but ultinately the only cure is a heart transplant. It is not so much that one part of the heart is biger it is more that it has over stretched and become baggy... that means that the ventricle can't contract efficiently to pump blood around the body.
I know very little about it in cats though but i am a paediatric cardiology nurse so deal with this a lot in children/babies.
_________________ Lollo
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