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The cardiomyopathies are a group of disease affecting heart muscles/cardiac myocardium (McCance & Huether, 2006 p.1119). As mention by Cruickshank (2004, pp18-20) most of the cases of cardiomyopathies are idiopathic in origin (Porth 1994, p.443), its often familial in origin or proposed causes are due to various cardiovascular disorders such as ischemic heart disease or hypertension or may be secondary to infectious disease, exposure to toxins, systemic connective disease, infiltrative and proliferative disorders or nutritional deficiencies.
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