type of heart disease in Hemochromatosis

[zedx]

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What type of heart disease is typically seen with hereditary hemochromatosis? It seems like a toss up between restrictive and dilated cardiomyopathy.

 

[Instatewaiter]

restrictive cardiomyopathy

 

[synapse lapse]

Yeah it's restrictive, though I think UW had a typo on one question saying it was dilated. Infiltrative disease all cause restricted cardiomyopathies.

 

[zedx]

yea ive been looking into it but step up has it as restrictive but emedicine seems to imply that patients would develop a dilated type. eh well, i guess another toss up.

 

[Doctor4Life1769]

From reading for Step 1, it is restrictive, but then eventually becomes dilated.

 

[MSKalltheway]

Infiltrative disease all cause restricted cardiomyopathies.

This is pretty much the key for the question. Id pick restrictive if theres a choice between the two.