RT Book, Section A1 Kemp, Walter L. A1 Burns, Dennis K. A1 Brown, Travis G. SR Print(0) ID 57052024 T1 Chapter 10. Cardiac Pathology T2 Pathology: The Big Picture YR 2008 FD 2008 PB The McGraw-Hill Companies PP New York, NY SN 978-0-07-147748-2 LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=57052024 RD 2024/03/29 AB Diseases of the heart fit into several general categories: congenital heart disease, ischemic heart disease, valvular diseases, and diseases of the myocardium (i.e., cardiomyopathies). Pericardial diseases and cardiac tumors are an additional small subset of conditions affecting the heart. A common manifestation of many different forms of heart disease is congestive heart failure (CHF). In general terms, congestive heart failure is the inability of the heart to pump enough blood to supply the body's oxygen requirements. It can represent failure of cellular adaptation (e.g., decompensated hypertrophy due to hypertension or chamber dilation due to regurgitant valves) or the outcome of myocardial damage caused by other diseases (e.g., scarring due to ischemic injury, inflammation, or accumulation of iron in hemochromatosis).