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 ...

In this scientific statement from the American Heart Association, experts in the field of cardiomyopathy (heart muscle disease) in children address 2 issues: the most current understanding of the ...

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 ...

Alnylam is riding high today after reporting its RNAi drug vutrisiran showed across-the-board efficacy in cardiomyopathy associated with transthyretin-mediated amyloidosis (ATTR), setting up ...

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

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a condition that thickens some of the heart’s muscles, making it harder to pump blood. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) usually affects the ventricular ...

Katrina Kimport receives funding from the Society of Family Planning and an anonymous private foundation. Tracy A. Weitz receives funding from the Society of Family Planning, Education Foundation ...

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Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) affects one in 500 people in the general population. In most cases, HCM is caused by genetic mutations. Doctors usually discover HCM during cardiac testing (an ...

Stress cardiomyopathy is the result of the direct effects of high levels of epinephrine on the ventricular myocardium High levels of epinephrine are negatively inotropic; they switch β2 ...

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Diagnosis. Stress-induced (Takotsubo) cardiomyopathy (apical ballooning syndrome). Management. The patient was monitored with cardiac telemetry. Metoprolol and ramipril were continued. A 54-year ...