Review clinical classifications, diagnostic procedures, and management strategies for cardiomyopathy and heart failure in this comprehensive overview.

March 26, 2009 (Baltimore, Maryland) — Exposure to catecholamines and beta agonists during routine procedures and diagnostic tests can precipitate the features of stress cardiomyopathy--also known as ...

Findings from a Cleveland Clinic-led clinical trial showed that the use of an experimental drug in severely symptomatic, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy patients significantly reduced the need for ...

Broken heart syndrome is a common name for stress-induced cardiomyopathy, or takotsubo cardiomyopathy, a disease that affects the heart’s muscle tissue. In 1990, Japanese researchers named the ...

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is an inherited condition that affects up to 750,000 people in the United States. It often involves left ventricular outflow tract obstruction. Septal reduction therapies ...

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 ...

Peripartum cardiomyopathy is a form of acute and sometimes severe cardiac degeneration that leads to clinical heart failure during pregnancy or in the early postpartum period. The disorder is ...

Cirrhotic cardiomyopathy is an abnormal cardiac function at rest and an impaired contractile responsiveness to stress in patients with cirrhosis An altered diastolic relaxation detected by reduced E:A ...

Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, also known as broken heart syndrome, is a sudden stress-induced heart condition. It is not a heart attack but can cause similar symptoms. Underlying heart disease does not ...

SHARJAH, 27th August, 2014 (WAM) -- A medical team at the University Hospital Sharjah has successfully performed a complicated prostatectomy on a patient in his sixties suffering from cardiomyopathy.