ALLMedicine™ Cardiomyopathy Center

Mar 1st, 2021 - Congenital heart disease is the most common type of birth defect, accounting for one-third of all congenital anomalies. Using whole-exome sequencing of 2718 patients with congenital heart disease and a search in GeneMatcher, we identified 30 patie...

Mar 1st, 2021 - Lysosomal storage disorders (LSD) are a group of inherited metabolic diseases characterized by lysosomal enzyme deficiency. The cardiac phenotype includes cardiomyopathy with eventual heart failure. Lysosome-mediated degradation processes, such as...

Mar 1st, 2021 - Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) can cause a wide range of cardiovascular diseases, including ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) and STEMI-mimickers (such as myocarditis, Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, among others). We performed a s...

Mar 1st, 2021 - Surgical ventricular remodeling (SVR) is an invasive method of treating patients with heart failure who also have ischemic cardiomyopathy and reduced ejection fraction (EF). Introduced in the mid-1980s, this technique was met with varying success ...

Feb 28th, 2021 - Our knowledge of associated cardiotoxicities from novel therapeutics in oncology continues to expand. These include arrhythmias from cancer-therapy induced cardiomyopathy (CCMP) resulting from both direct and indirect effects on cardiomyocytes and...

Jun 16th, 2020 - This Canadian Cardiovascular Society position statement is focused on the management of sustained ventricular tachycardia (VT) and ventricular fibrillation (VF) that occurs in patients with structural heart disease (SHD), including previous myocar...

Sep 10th, 2019 - Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is defined by the presence of left ventricular or biventricular dilatation and systolic dysfunction in the absence of abnormal loading conditions or coronary artery disease sufficient to explain these changes. This is ...

May 21st, 2019 - Question Is it possible to identify most patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) at risk of arrhythmic sudden cardiac death (SCD) and to prevent such events with prophylactic implantable cardioverter/defibrillators (ICDs)? Findings In t...

May 12th, 2019 - Arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy (ACM) is an arrhythmogenic disorder of the myocardium not secondary to ischemic, hypertensive, or valvular heart disease. ACM incorporates a broad spectrum of genetic, systemic, infectious, and inflammatory disorders....

Aug 19th, 2018 - Chagas disease, resulting from the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi, is an important cause of heart failure, stroke, arrhythmia, and sudden death. Traditionally regarded as a tropical disease found only in Central America and South America, Chagas dise.

Mar 1st, 2021 - Congenital heart disease is the most common type of birth defect, accounting for one-third of all congenital anomalies. Using whole-exome sequencing of 2718 patients with congenital heart disease and a search in GeneMatcher, we identified 30 patie...

Mar 1st, 2021 - Lysosomal storage disorders (LSD) are a group of inherited metabolic diseases characterized by lysosomal enzyme deficiency. The cardiac phenotype includes cardiomyopathy with eventual heart failure. Lysosome-mediated degradation processes, such as...

Mar 1st, 2021 - Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) can cause a wide range of cardiovascular diseases, including ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) and STEMI-mimickers (such as myocarditis, Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, among others). We performed a s...

Mar 1st, 2021 - Surgical ventricular remodeling (SVR) is an invasive method of treating patients with heart failure who also have ischemic cardiomyopathy and reduced ejection fraction (EF). Introduced in the mid-1980s, this technique was met with varying success ...

Feb 28th, 2021 - Our knowledge of associated cardiotoxicities from novel therapeutics in oncology continues to expand. These include arrhythmias from cancer-therapy induced cardiomyopathy (CCMP) resulting from both direct and indirect effects on cardiomyocytes and...

Jan 26th, 2021 - Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. Hospitalist Sarah Stone, MD, arrived for her dayshift at Sharp Chula Vista in California one day in late December. The ICU and hospital wards were...

Jan 21st, 2021 - The presence of ischemia on stress testing should not be used to refer patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy for coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery, a new STICH analysis concludes. Previously, the Surgical Treatment for Ischemic Heart Fai...

Nov 19th, 2020 - Greater involvement of the patient and family in decision-making, clarity on the role of genetic testing and parameters for team-oriented care, and use of high-volume specialty centers are cornerstones of the first update in almost a decade of the...

Oct 14th, 2020 - Among the landmark presentations at the recent European Society of Cardiology virtual congress was the presentation on the EXPLORER-HCM randomized controlled trial. In this study, simultaneously published in The Lancet, the investigational drug ma...

Oct 14th, 2020 - Among the landmark presentations at the recent European Society of Cardiology virtual congress was the presentation on the EXPLORER-HCM randomized controlled trial. In this study, simultaneously published in The Lancet, the investigational drug ma...