CHICAGO -- Gene therapy for Danon disease, a rare inherited cause of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, appeared to improve or ...

Ischemic cardiomyopathy changes how the heart pumps blood because of muscle damage. Learn about the role of medication in ...

2. An AI-powered ECG predicts the likelihood of patients having heart conditions including amyloidosis, atrial fibrillation and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. 3. A computer vision-based smartphone app ...

HCM is a relatively common genetic cardiomyopathy that can be a challenge to diagnose, with about one in three patients misdiagnosed as having another cardiomyopathy. Genetic testing identifies a ...

Cardiovascular disease, sometimes abbreviated as CVD, is the leading cause of death worldwide. It’s a catchall term for heart ...

The death of three young Nashville area runners in the past three months have raised questions this TSSAA cross country ...

A 38-year-old man diagnosed with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) presents for his annual physical examination. He was diagnosed with HCM 1 year earlier and started on metoprolol XL 25 mg daily. He ...

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is an uncommon disease with significant consequences. Since the 1950s, major strides in understanding its etiology and pathogenesis have led to improved ...

These observations led Braunwald et al to name the condition idiopathic hypertrophic subaortic stenosis in a case ... iterations over the ensuing decades before arriving at hypertrophy cardiomyopathy ...

There are two main types of cardiomyopathy: Dilated cardiomyopathy causes the chambers in the heart muscle to grow larger which prevents the heart muscle from contracting normally. Hypertrophic ...