List of heart diseases | common cardiac diseases

Major heart diseases, causes, symptoms and treatment

Heart is a muscular and most important organ of the human body, which pumps and supplies blood to the whole body. Some animals has 2, 3 while human has 4 chambers.

  • Fish has two chambered heart
  • Most reptiles has three chambered heart

More about the location, structure, and function of the heart is described in this article.

  1. Cardiomyopathy - heart or cardiac muscle disease
    1. Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
    2. Restrictive Cardiomyopathy
    3. Dilated Cardiomyopathy
  2. Hypertensive heart disease - hypertension & high blood pressure
  3. Congenital heart disease - by birth heart disease
  4. Rheumatic heart disease - heart disease caused by rheumatic fever which damages the heart muscles and valves.
  5. Inflammatory heart disease - heart muscle inflammation disease
  6. Valvular heart disease - cardiovascular heart disease
  7. Cardiac dysrhythmias - heart disease related to heart rhythm
  8. Pulmonary heart disease - failure or enlargement of the right side of heart due high blood pressure in lungs or pulmonic stenosis disease.
    1. Chronic pulmonary heart disease
    2. Acute pulmonary heart disease
  9. Heart failure
  10. Heart Attack