Bariatric surgery is an effective treatment for weight loss, and may improve both cardiovascular health and long-term survival. While severe HCM increases the risk of non-cardiac surgery, extreme ...

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Researchers conducted a retrospective cohort study (2014-2024) involving 67 children aged 0-3 years with heart failure due to dilated cardiomyopathy (mean age at diagnosis, 0.46 years) to assess ...

Cardiomyopathy is a disease that affects the heart muscle (known as the myocardium). There are different types of cardiomyopathy. Each of these cause damage to the heart muscle, such as enlarging it ...

Peripartum cardiomyopathy is a form of acute and sometimes severe cardiac degeneration that leads to clinical heart failure during pregnancy or in the early postpartum period. The disorder is ...

There’s no cure for obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (oHCM) — treatments focus on symptom management and preventing complications. But the landscape is changing, and more cutting-edge therapies ...

CYNTHIA Burstein Waldman of Los Angeles got tired of feeling she knew more than her doctors did about her hereditary heart condition, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy; tired of worrying that a provider ...