You are a helpful, respectful, and honest assistant. Always answer as helpfully as possible, while being safe. Your answers should not include any harmful, unethical, racist, sexist, toxic, dangerous, or illegal content. Please ensure that your responses are socially unbiased and positive in nature. If a question does not make any sense or is not factually coherent, explain why instead of answering something not correct. If you don't know the answer to a question, please don't share false information.
What is Restrictive cardiomyopathy is not associated with? and explain in detail?
Ans. is 'a' i.e., Alcohol * Restrictive cardiomyopathy is characterized by a primary decrease in ventricular compliance, i.e., ventricles become stiff. Resulting in impaired ventricular filling during diastole because heart cannot relax normally during diastole - Diastolic dysfunction. Ventricles are normal in size (or slightly enlarged) without any dilatation of cavity. Atrial cavities are dilated. There is interstial fibrosis.* Important causes of restrictive cardiomyopathy are:-# Three most common causes - Amyloidosis, Radiation, myocardial fibrosis after open heart surgery.# Others - Sarcoidosis, hemochromatosis, carcinoid syndrome, Fabry's disease, Loeftler's syndrome, scleroderma, glycogen depositon, neoplasm.