Items Tagged ‘dilated cardiomyopathy’
May 15, 2012
2 MN Sisters, 2 Heart Transplant Surgeries
Two young Minnesota sisters share a very special gift: two successful heart transplant surgeries. For their mother, Linsey Rippy, this Mother’s Day is about routine rather than recognition. “You just deal with it. What more could I have done? You just take it as it comes,” said mother Rippy, whose 3-year-old daughter, Sydney, is still […]
November 4, 2009
Mayo Clinic Proceedings: New Methods Found Useful for Diagnosing Myocarditis
Myocarditis is an important, and often unrecognized cause of dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM). Several new diagnostic methods, such as cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), are useful for diagnosing myocarditis, according to a study published in the November 2009 issue of Mayo Clinic proceedings… “The use of MRI is particularly significant in the diagnosis of patients […]