A disorder of the heart muscle. In this condition, the wall of the heart weakens, thickens or stiffens. The heart normally circulates blood around the body without pumping tears leading to a lack of ...

Physical activity in children and teenagers with cardiomyopathy (conditions that affect the heart muscle's structure and function, impairing its ability to pump or fill effectively), as well as ...

A patient fact sheet outlining the differences between heart failure and cardiomyopathy, including subtypes of each condition and diagnostic procedures for both. Cardiomyopathy is a group of heart ...

The term dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) refers to a spectrum of heterogeneous myocardial disorders that are characterized by ventricular dilation and depressed myocardial performance in the absence of ...

Aficamten offers a new treatment option for symptomatic obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (oHCM). Clinical trials SEQUOIA-HCM and MAPLE-HCM showed aficamten's efficacy in improving exercise ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Strength training may be as safe as sedentary behavior for people with genetic risk for ventricular arrhythmia.

Panel A shows a cross-section of a normal heart (top) and an endomyocardial biopsy sample from a normal heart (bottom; with hematoxylin and eosin staining) that shows normal histologic characteristics ...

Postpartum cardiomyopathy is a type of heart failure that weakens your heart one month before or up to five months after your delivery. Because your heart problems happen around childbirth, it's also ...

The hearts of people with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy are thicker, and must beat more forcefully to pump out blood into the body. This can lead to a variety of symptoms, which may appear only ...

The most common cardiovascular killer in maternal medicine is also among the most misdiagnosed. Peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM), a systolic dysfunction that occurs either in late pregnancy or in the ...

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a condition where the heart (cardio) muscle (myopathy) becomes thickened (hypertrophied). HCM is the most common type of genetic cardiomyopathy. Patients are born ...

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 ...