Table 1.

Overview of Common Causes of Chronic Heart Failure

Myocardial disorder Coronary artery disease Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy Hypo / hyperthyroidism Neurohormonal excess Inflammatory or immune Metabolic disorder or infiltrative Toxic Idiopathic cardiomyopathy Hemodynamic overload Hypertension Renal failure Cardiac arrhythmia Atrial / ventricular arrhythmias Sinus node dysfunction Atrioventricular conduction block Cardiac valve disease Mitral valve stenosis or regurgitation Aortic valve stenosis or regurgitation Pericardial disease Constrictive Extra-cardiac pathology Anemia Sepsis Iatrogenic Congenital heart disease Congenitally corrected transposition of great arteries Univentricular heart or double inlet left ventricle Tetralogy of Fallot Pulmonary atresia Ventricular and atrial septal defect