When medications arent 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 ...

Implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) are proven therapies with clear mortality benefits in patients who have ...

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 ...

Cardiomyopathy is a serious medical condition that centers on a weakened heart muscle. A group of disorders may result in cardiomyopathy by directly affecting the heart muscle's structure, function ...

A diagnosis of stress-induced cardiomyopathy is also known as takotsubo cardiomyopathy and broken heart syndrome. It means the heart has been weakened by an acute period of emotional or physical ...

Dilated cardiomyopathy and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy arise from mutations in many genes. TTN, the gene encoding the sarcomere protein titin, has been insufficiently analyzed for cardiomyopathy ...