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 ...

Learn which common medications you need to avoid when you have oHCM, including some for blood pressure and erectile ...

Treatment sometimes involves an implantable defibrillator. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is the most common form of genetic heart disease worldwide. Researchers have estimated that up to 1 in 200 people ...

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 ...

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a progressive heart disease with four stages. At each stage, HCM has a greater impact on the heart’s structure and function. In the earliest stage, a person will ...