Learn when hypertrophic cardiomyopathy becomes severe and how a cardiologist guides you through heart transplant evaluation ...

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 ...

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is an underdiagnosed genetic disorder, resulting from mutations in sarcomeric proteins. It has a highly variable clinical presentation, with some individuals remaining ...

Treatment sometimes involves an implantable defibrillator. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is the most common form of genetic heart disease worldwide. Researchers have estimated that up to 1 in 200 people ...

Adolescent patients with obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) who received the drug mavacamten saw a significant ...

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a genetic condition characterized by the thickening of the heart muscles. This can happen at any time in life but often begins in adolescence or early adulthood.

Treating patients with HCM is guided by how severe symptoms are, whether a patient has any risk factors for sudden cardiac death, and whether a patient has cardiac arrhythmias and other associated ...

Apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is a rare condition where the heart walls thicken at the left ventricle’s apex, making it harder for the ventricle to pump. Symptoms are often vague or absent, but ...

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is the most common genetic heart (cardiac) condition. It affects more than one in 500 people in the US. Genetic counseling and genetic testing can be helpful so you ...