Background A 48-year-old man with hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM) presented with palpitations, symptoms of medically refractory class II angina, and NYHA class II–III heart failure.

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a primary disease of cardiac muscle characterized by a thickening of the left ventricular wall and often predominantly affecting the interventricular septum. This ...

Treating patients with HCM is guided by how severe symptoms are, whether a patient has any risk factors for sudden cardiac death, and whether a patient has cardiac arrhythmias and other associated ...

Your heart is a muscle. As Dr. Noah Moss, an advanced heart failure and transplant cardiologist at the Mount Sinai Fuster Hospital in New York City, puts it, “a very special muscle, but a muscle.” ...

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is an underdiagnosed genetic disorder, resulting from mutations in sarcomeric proteins. It has a highly variable clinical presentation, with some individuals remaining ...

The Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM) Program at University of Utah Health is one of the nation’s few programs for comprehensive HCM evaluation and management. Our multidisciplinary team works ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is the most common genetic heart disease, with prevalence estimates from one in 200 ...

Beta-blockers have been the initial treatment for symptomatic obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) despite limited evidence of their efficacy. Aficamten is a cardiac myosin inhibitor that ...

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The human heart is a muscle, but it’s also a kind of complicated balloon—a balloon that fills and empties roughly 60 to 100 times every minute, and several billion times during the course of a ...

Panel A shows a cross-section of a normal heart (top) and an endomyocardial biopsy sample from a normal heart (bottom; with hematoxylin and eosin staining) that shows normal histologic characteristics ...