senile cardiomyopathy

Senile cardiomyopathy is an unexplained degenerative disease of the myocardium during the aging process in the elderly. It is an important cause of heart failure in the elderly and one of the diseases causing death in the elderly. Senile cardiomyopathy is not cardiac dysfunction caused by already recognized diseases, but occurs merely with increasing age. In recent years, with the development of examination and diagnostic techniques, the detection of senile cardiomyopathy has increased, but its clinical manifestations, diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis differ in many ways from those in middle-aged and young people. Therefore, understanding and mastering the pathological and physiological characteristics of senile cardiomyopathy has important clinical significance.