Laminopathies are hereditary diseases that affect mainly the muscle tissue. These diseases include for example Emery-Dreifuss Muscular dystrophy, dilated cardiomyopathy, limb-girdle muscular dystrophy and Hutchison-Gilford progeria syndrome.

Peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM) is a deterioration in cardiac function that occurs in pregnant women during the last month or in the months following their pregnancy. This disorder can occur in women with no prior history of heart disease and the...

Recently, Illumina Inc. (ILMN) expanded its suite of TruSight content sets by adding TruSight Tumor to its portfolio. TruSight’s content set is created according to different diseases. Inherited disease, exome, cardiomyopathy, cancer and...

(MedPage Today) -- In pediatric patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, implantable cardioverter-defibrillators can terminate ventricular tachyarrhythmias, but with a high complication rate, researchers found.

Award will support investigations of leading cause of sudden death in young people

(MedPage Today) -- Fibrosis seen on enhanced cardiac MRI helps predict mortality among patients with dilated, nonischemic cardiomyopathy, even atop the standard clinical predictor of ejection fraction, a longitudinal study showed.

Award will support investigations of leading cause of sudden death in young people

I was diagnosed with nonischemic cardiomyopathy but they say there is 4 kinds of cardiomyopathy but my doctor is only telling me it is nonschemic and isn't telling me what kind

Mary Leah Coco believes knowing her family history and taking it seriously are the only reasons she's actually alive today. Mary Leah's grandfather died of cardiomyopathy before she was born. Then, in 2008, her mother went into atrial fibrillation...

(MedPage Today) -- Some patients have a cardiomyopathy induced by left bundle branch block in the absence of structural heart disease that can be resolved with cardiac resynchronization therapy, a retrospective study suggested.

(MedPage Today) -- Patients scheduled for a peripheral artery intervention do much better if they are already on statins and aspirin. Also this week, predictors of new-onset dilated cardiomyopathy.

When a young athlete dies unexpectedly on the basketball court or the football field, it's both shocking and tragic. Now researchers have, for the first time, identified the molecular basis for a condition called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy that is...

A multicenter registry has demonstrated that the use of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) to combat sudden cardiac death in high-risk pediatric patients suffering from hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). The study was presented at the...

Researchers at the National Heart Centre Singapore (NHCS) have successfully created a human heart cell model of arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC), an inherited heart muscle disorder which puts one at high risk of developing...

Non-compliance with vitamin and mineral supplementation protocols after bariatric surgery could lead to nutritional deficiencies and related health complications, such as heart damage, according to two separate case reports unveiled today at the...

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy — Comprehensive overview covers symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of this heart disorder.

Peripartum cardiomyopathy, a form of heart failure that by definition develops late in pregnancy or shortly after delivery, results in a frightening turn of events that can leave new mothers suffering from a lifelong chronic heart condition...

Sports Cardiologist Expert Dr. Euan Ashley sharing "Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy vs. Athlete's Heart: Understanding the Physiologic Limits of Exercise" at the 21st American Medical Society for Sports Medicine Annual Meeting in Atlanta, GA on Sunday,...

According to the Los Angeles Chief Medical Examiner Lakshmanan Sathyavagiswaran, 43 year-old Andrew Breitbart died of heart failure and “hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with focal coronary atheroscerosis”, which is thickening of the heart...

Left-ventricular hyper-trabeculation (LVHT) - a feature of certain cardiomyopathies (chronic disease of the heart muscle) - has been found to be more common in black, male athletes according to a new study presented at the World Congress of...