With cardiomyopathy, your heart is not able to keep a regular electrical rhythm and cannot effectively pump blood. The condition weakens your heart and can lead to heart failure. However, medication, ...

2.5% in the surgery group (P = .44), Reardon and colleagues found. Both groups had sustained improvement in quality of life, with a mean Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire score of 88.3 in ...

Singer Tank (Lü Jianzhong), from the island of Taiwan, undergoes Asia's first simultaneous heart and liver transplant for ...

Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Program, Division of Cardiology, Toronto General Hospital; Department of Medicine, University of Toronto,Toronto, ON Anthony Ralph-Edwards, MD, FRCSC, Division of ...

Thomas Kuhn, CEO of Poxel, stated: “We are very pleased with these top-line results, which illustrate the potential of PXL065 for treating hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, the most common genetic ...

However, other causes of increased sympathetic activity including physical trauma, surgery or cocaine use can trigger Takotsubo cardiomyopathy as well. The exact pathophysiology of Takotsubo ...

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