Drug-induced cardiomyopathy

Broadly speaking, any heart disease caused by direct or indirect myocardial toxicity of the drug, whether it is the abnormality of myocardial depolarization and repolarization or various arrhythmias caused by the effect of drugs on the myocardial electrophysiology, or myocardial contraction Drugs are inhibited due to the toxic effects of drugs, and then cause or aggravate heart failure, or cause myocarditis and pericarditis due to allergies to certain drugs, which can be called drug-induced heart diseases.

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