Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, or HCM, is a genetic disease in which the heart muscle grows thicker than normal. You might think of the term “big-hearted” to connote something good, says Dr.

In healthy hearts, cardiac muscle cells (cardiomyocytes) naturally renew at approximately 0.5% per year. However, in failing hearts, this renewal rate drops dramatically – to 0.03% in cases of ...

Noninducibility of any VT at PES* Established predictive value when performed from multiple sites (RV and LV) ≤3 extrastimuli Not useful for patients without inducible VT; suboptimal negative ...

PATH-CHF 3,18,30 Single-blind, randomized, crossover, controlled 42 patients with idiopathic or ischemic dilated cardiomyopathy and NYHA class III/IV heart failure Interim analysis (spring 1998) ...

Medically reviewed by Yasmine S. Ali, MD, MSCI Atrial fibrillation is the most common type of sustained cardiac arrhythmia—or ...