Isolated left ventricular non-compaction (LVNC) is an uncommon primary cardiomyopathy associated with significant risk of thromboembolic stroke. We report a case of a 69-year-old man with a medical ...

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM ... they may need additional tests to confirm a diagnosis, such as: The primary goals of treatment for HCM are to manage symptoms, halt or slow down the ...

Restrictive cardiomyopathy manifests as congestive ... Treatment is aimed at the primary etiology, if possible; however, no specific therapy exists to improve outcomes in regard to the congestive ...

Before a diagnosis of primary congestive cardiomyopathy is tenable, occlusive coronary atherosclerosis must be excluded. It seems likely that many examples of alleged primary cardiomyopathy may be due ...

The term dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) refers to a spectrum of heterogeneous ... Cardiac involvement has been predominantly noted in amyloid light chain (AL) amyloidosis (also known as primary ...

Some cancer treatments can cause heart disease, weakening of the heart muscle (cardiomyopathy), or heart tumors. Another condition, cardiac amyloidosis, is sometimes linked to multiple myeloma. While ...

Angiosarcoma is the most common primary sarcoma of the heart and characteristically arises at the right atrium. Imaging findings of a hypervascular mass lesion centered at the right atrium with or ...

So-called diabetic cardiomyopathy may affect up to 20% of people with chronic diabetes and represents a unique target for treatment. In this interview, James Januzzi, MD, FACC, and Alison L. Bailey, ...

Left ventricular non-compaction cardiomyopathy (LVNC) remains a subject of unsettled debate between those who perceive it to be a primary genetic cardiomyopathy1 and those who believe excessive ...

For children with severe hypertrophic cardiomyopathy caused by gain-of-function RAS/mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) mutations (RASopathy), trametinib reduces mortality and morbidity.

Objective We hypothesised that abnormal global longitudinal strain (GLS) would predict outcome in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM ... and standard variables and LV GLS were measured. The primary ...