But it’s critical for new moms to keep an eye out for signs of postpartum complications because in rare cases, a serious form of heart disease known as peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM) can develop ...

Methods This is an international observational registry of patients with structural heart disease during pregnancy. Sixty hospitals in 28 countries enrolled 1321 women between 2007 and 2011. Pregnant ...

Brittany Clayborne remembers the day her health crisis began in 2010. She had just given birth to her son, Micah, and was ...

According to analysts at BMO Capital Markets, non-obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy would have meant a $1.3 billion label expansion opportunity for Camzyos. Bristol Myers Squibb’s myosin blocker ...

Primary cardiomyopathy can also be due to disorders acquired during life, such as peripartum cardiomyopathy during pregnancy. Cardiomyopathy impacts all genders and people of all ages, including ...

OBJECTIVE: To assess pregnancy outcome in women with peripartum cardiomyopathy and to compare it with idiopathic cardiomyopathy. METHODS: Twenty-six pregnant women, aged 28.4±6.1 years, with dilated ...

Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) in first pregnancies significantly increased the risk for dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), with an early onset of 5.1 years postpartum compared with 10.6 ...

Objectives To characterise pregnancy course and outcomes in women with arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia/cardiomyopathy (ARVD/C). Methods From a combined Johns Hopkins/Dutch ARVD/C registry, ...

New research shows a significant association between hypertensive disorders in pregnancy and an increased risk of developing dilated cardiomyopathy. Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, which affect 5 ...

Collectively, our findings reveal significant remodeling in fetal mouse heart and the programming of cardiomyopathy particularly in female offspring of superimposed preeclampsia. Although this method ...

PREGNANCY in individuals with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) does not increase long-term risks of adverse outcomes, including mortality, new research has shown. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a ...