Among patients with severe aortic stenosis at low surgical risk, transcatheter aortic valve replacement and surgery conferred ...

Medically reviewed by Rafle Fernandez, MD Cardiomyopathy is a disease that affects the heart muscle (known as the myocardium) ...

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM ... and were less likely to undergo surgery, than patients with electrocardiographic abnormalities. In fact, survival at 5 and 10 years was not appreciably ...

Affecting 1 in 500 people, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is a condition in which the walls of the left ventricle, the heart's ...

If diagnosed, the good news is that hypertrophic cardiomyopathy can be treated with medications, surgery, implanting a defibrillator that monitors the heart or, in severe cases, heart transplantation.

Johnson-Dean finally insisted she go to the emergency room. Doctors discovered she was suffering from peripartum cardiomyopathy, a rare condition in which the heart weakens that can happen in the last ...

Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is a heterogeneous disorder that is familial in approximately 30% of cases. Although several genes have been identified that can cause familial DCM, molecular analyses ...

After joining Cleveland-based University Hospitals in 2020 as UH Cleveland Medical Center’s director of cardiothoracic transplantation, Yasir Abu-Omar, MD, PhD, in February was appointed chief of ...

If you need to have bypass surgery, you’ll have lots of questions ... threatening heart condition called transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM). High-Risk Plaque: The Hidden Killer ...