Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) in cats is a heart condition that may cause heart muscles to thicken. The condition reduces the heart’s efficiency. Symptoms may show in other body parts.

Hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM) is the most common genetic heart disease, affecting about 1 in every 500 people, according to the American Heart Association (AHA). In people with HOCM, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mavacamten (Camzyos) is the first ever drug to be approved for HOCM found to improve symptoms and may reduce the need for surgery for some people. On April 28, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ...

The diagnosis of a potentially lethal cardiovascular disease in a young athlete presents a complex dilemma regarding athlete safety, patient autonomy, team or institutional risk tolerance and medical ...

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 ...

The woman, a field geologist, was healthy and active, yet she would pass out at inopportune moments. By Lisa Sanders, M.D. The day was sweltering. The 61-year-old woman urged her donkey into a trot.

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 ...