When medications aren’t doing enough to manage your hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), surgical procedures can offer real relief. HCM is a genetic heart condition in which parts of the heart muscle ...
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 ...
After treating the local community for more than 30 years, Dr. Stephen Kemker became a patient himself ...
Findings from a Cleveland Clinic-led clinical trial showed that the use of an experimental drug in severely symptomatic, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy patients significantly reduced the need for ...
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 ...
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 American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology today released an updated guideline for managing patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). The guideline encourages shared ...
Sociodemographic Disparities in Outcomes, Costs, and Care in Obstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
Patients with oHCM experience significant variation in cardiovascular events, health care resource use, and costs across age, sex, race, and US region.
You could argue that the complications of a disease, rather than the disease itself, create most of the problems associated with that condition. Take hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, or HCM, a primarily ...
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 ...
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Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and COVID-19
Medically reviewed by Sameena Zahoor, MD Key Takeaways People with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) have a higher risk of becoming severely ill from COVID-19.COVID-19 can cause heart damage and lead ...
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