myocarditis

Did your Dr order any further testing? Did he say if the stress test was
abnormal or not? Don't get too worried until you know the whole picture.

In the subject line you list myocarditis. Myocarditis just means
inflammation of the heart muscle. Lacking any other explanation it is often
attributed to a viral infection.

The word you may be looking for is probably Cardiomyopathy. Cardiomyopathy
simply means that something is wrong with the heart muscle. Before you get
worried, there are several types of Cardiomyopathies, some of them more
benign than others. I am absolutely sick of Dr.'s and Dr's staff members who
say things like this to the patient without explaining precisely what is
going on. It is almost criminal in my opinion to scare a patient like that.
There are two common types of cardiomyopathy that are most likely to be
seen. These are just rough explanations off the top of my head and aren't
exact or thorough.

Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy..... thickening of the heart muscle often from
high blood pressure or a heart valve that no longer opens as well as it used
to. It can also be found it athletes who are very conditioned. More commonly
this condition of heart muscle thickening is referred to as Left Ventricular
Hypertrophy(LVH). I have mild LVH that developed over the past few years
from high blood pressure that I now have under control with medicine. If you
had a stress test that did not include an ultrasound it is possible that
your Dr saw signs of this thickening on your EKG (the wires you had hooked
up). This is just a guess on my part. If you haven't had an echocardiogram
(ultrasound of your heart) then you should get one to see exactly what is or
isn't going on.

Dilated Cardiomyopathy..... Enlargement of the left ventricle of the heart.
Usually accompanied by a weak heart muscle and low output from your heart.
Can be from a virus, lots of heart artery blockages, or valves that have
leaked for a long time. Just a few years ago this condition was a lot harder
to deal with. Now with the use of the right medicines people are making
amazing recoveries. It is truly amazing the improvements I have seen in just
the last few years.

I am just an ultrasound technician and not a Medical Doctor. I only post
this information to show you how much information you weren't given by your
Dr. I'm still not sure why the vast majority of Dr's cannot give these
simple 60 second explanations.
KH

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I am an active person who has noticed a drop in energy when exercising so

I

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went to the cardiologist and had a stress test......results of the test
indicate that I have a milld cardiopathy......what is a cardiopathy??????

The response you received from Kevin is absolutely correct. Furthermore
neither myocarditis nor cardiomyopathy are diagnosed with a stress test but
with echocardiography. So ,you see you have a lot a questions for your
cardiologist

Adrian
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I am an active person who has noticed a drop in energy when exercising so

I

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went to the cardiologist and had a stress test......results of the test
indicate that I have a milld cardiopathy......what is a cardiopathy??????