Is Cardiomyopathy an infectious disease?

Not per se. You can have a viral infection that causes cardiomyopathy and that viral infection may be infectious - but two people in the same house could have the same virus and it causes cardiomyopathy in one person but not another. It has to do with a host of variables including a particular genetic susceptibility for one person but not another.

So you can not catch cardiomyopathy from another person but you could catch the virus that caused a person's cardiomyopathy - whether you might actually get cardiomyopathy too is highly unlikely. But of course if you have some reason to think maybe you did - get it checked out. It is an important diagnosis to make.

nope, heart diseases and conditions are not contagious.

No. It's a heart disease.

cardiomyopathy is not exactly a disease. Sometimes disease causes it but it is dysfunction of the muscle of the heart pump action.

The cause of cardiomyopathy are many;1) infection disease;virural;such as HIV,Lyme disease and other virus.2)due to heart attack lack of oxygen supply.3)hypertension.4)Diabetic illness.5)toxic;such alcoholism.and much more.Every one understand that aid is infectious disease and contagious So hardly just say cardiomyopathy is infectious disease or not.

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