Cardiomyopathy is a progressive disease of the heart muscle. Learn about the types, symptoms, treatment, and prognosis of this disease. Cardiomyopathy is a progressive disease of the myocardium, or heart muscle.In most cases, the heart muscle becomes weakened and unable to pump blood to the rest of the body as well as it should. non-ischemic: any form of cardiomyopathy not related to coronary artery disease. 2  noncompaction: a rare form, also called âspongiform cardiomyopathy,â is a congenital disease (present at birth) resulting from abnormal development of the heart muscle in the womb.
'The Troubles' is a euphemism that is commonly used in Northern Ireland, and the Republic of Ireland, to refer to the most recent period of civil and political unrest, and violent political conflict (from 1968 to the present).ost Protestants consider themselves to be British and are Unionist in political outlook, that is, they want Northern Ireland to remain part of the (union of the) United Kingdom (UK) of Britain (England, Scotland, and Wales) and Northern Ireland.
The Irish Republican Army (IRA), which traces its roots to Catholic Irish nationalism in the early 1900s, was considered by many to be a terrorist organization because of certain tactics like bombings and assassinations it used to oppose British rule in Ireland. In 1998, an IRA car bombing killed 29 people in Northern Ireland. 2  The attack was severe enough to provoke threats by the Irish government that paramilitary groups must declare a cease-fire.