BACKGROUND: Massive left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is a risk factor for sudden cardiac death in children with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), but little is understood about its natural history.

Genome-first analyses in UK Biobank and All of Us support RBM20 as an arrhythmogenic DCM gene, with an etiologic fraction of ...

A new case-control study published in JAMA Cardiology demonstrates that molecular imaging using gallium-68–labeled fibroblast ...

Cardiomyopathy can be a diverse diagnosis. There are many different types -- some inherited, others due to injury to the heart, treatment side effects, pregnancy, and a range of other causes. The ...

Medera Inc. ("Medera"), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing next-generation cardiovascular therapeutics, and its clinical development division Sardocor, today announced that the U.S.

The human heart is a muscle, but it’s also a kind of complicated balloon—a balloon that fills and empties roughly 60 to 100 times every minute, and several billion times during the course of a ...

BACKGROUND: Genetic variants in components or regulators of the RAS-MAPK signaling pathway are causative for severe and early-onset hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) in patients with Noonan syndrome ...

"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 ...

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 ...

Cardiomyopathy is a disease of the heart muscles which may cause them to become enlarged and inflamed. Inflamed muscles become stretched, weak, less efficient at pumping blood and less able to ...

New study reveals metabolic remodeling as an early event in diastolic dysfunction Restrictive cardiomyopathy (RCM) caused by ...

The family of a 17-year-old cheerleader and tennis player who died from cardiomyopathy has filed a lawsuit against a ...