When medications aren’t doing enough to manage your hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), surgical procedures can offer real relief. HCM is a genetic heart condition in which parts of the heart muscle ...

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is an inherited condition that affects up to 750,000 people in the United States. It often involves left ventricular outflow tract obstruction. Septal reduction therapies ...

WASHINGTON, DC—A transcatheter electrosurgical procedure that mimics surgical myotomy may be an option in some patients to relieve left ventricular outflow tract (LVOT) obstruction in the setting of ...

Findings from a Cleveland Clinic-led clinical trial showed that the use of an experimental drug in severely symptomatic, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy patients significantly reduced the need for ...

Peripartum cardiomyopathy is a form of acute and sometimes severe cardiac degeneration that leads to clinical heart failure during pregnancy or in the early postpartum period. The disorder is ...

"Medical Journeys" is a set of clinical resources reviewed by physicians, meant for the medical team as well as the patients they serve. Each episode of this 12-part journey through a disease state ...

Nonischemic cardiomyopathy is when problems with your heart muscle aren’t due to reduced blood flow. Instead, causes include genetics, infections, and autoimmune conditions. Cardiomyopathy is the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Genetic risk for dilated cardiomyopathy was tied to elevated risk for secondary cardiomyopathies related to ...

Transthyretin amyloidosis with cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM) is a progressive, fatal disease. Vutrisiran, a subcutaneously administered RNA interference therapeutic agent, inhibits the production of ...

SAN RAMON, Calif., and XIAMEN, China, March 13, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- BioVentrix, Inc. a pioneer of technologies and procedures for less invasive treatment of heart failure (HF), today announced ...

Cardiomyopathy is the leading cause of mortality in patients with DMD. Compared with their healthy counterparts, patients with DMD — including those with preserved left ventricular ejection fraction ...