A new AI model is much better than doctors at identifying patients likely to experience cardiac arrest. The linchpin is the ...

The past 12 months mark a milestone year for the discipline of sports and exercise cardiology.We have seen the publication of two major guideline documents for athletes: the 2025 American Heart Associ ...

Rachel Freedman, a 32-year-old graduate student in New York City, thought she was just exhausted and out of shape. She ...

ATTR-CM (transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy) is a rare condition that causes a range of vague symptoms, including shortness ...

The efficacy data of aficamten in obstructive HCM patients with mild symptoms from SEQUOIA-HCM were simultaneously published ...

A new PET/CT imaging technique that visualizes activated fibroblasts in the heart muscle enables early detection of multiple forms of cardiomyopathy, according to research presented at the Society of ...

Epidemiology. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy has a global presence with an estimated prevalence of 1 in 500. It has been described in at least 125 countries and has a similar prevalence in men and ...

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) ... (LV) apical impulse displaced to the anterior axillary line, fifth intercostal space; a normal first and second heart sounds and a third ...

Background Apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a rare variant of HCM, often considered to have a benign prognosis. This study aimed to compare the clinical characteristics and genetic ...

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, apical variant. Still-frame, long-axis cardiac magnetic resonance stack of images (steady-state free-precession; diastole) ...

About Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a disease in which the heart muscle (myocardium) becomes abnormally thick (hypertrophied). The thickening of cardiac muscle ...

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is the most commonly inherited cardiomyopathy, characterized by unexplained left ventricular hypertrophy, with a prevalence rate of approximately 1 in 500 individuals ...