Risk Factors For Premature Atrial Contractions

Cardiomyopathy

Cardiomyopathies are diseases of the heart muscle or myocardium that cause the heart to weaken and lose its ability to pump oxygenated blood throughout the body properly. This can happen when the heart muscles stretch out and become too thin to properly pump blood. Another form of this disease is when the muscle walls of the heart thicken to the point where they are stopping the proper flow of blood through the heart. A more rare type of this disease occurs when the ventricles are not able to expand enough to fill up with the proper amount of blood due to excessive ventricle stiffening. All types of cardiomyopathies can cause electrical interruptions and irregular electrical impulses to flow throughout the heart, resulting in frequent premature atrial contractions. Individuals who have been diagnosed with any type of this disease, even if it is being treated and or managed, are at a higher risk of having problems with excessive premature atrial contractions and the complications that result from them.

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