Medically reviewed by Christopher Lee, MD Key Takeaways Cardiomyopathy is a disease that affects the heart muscle, making it weak or stiff.Medication, surgery, and lifestyle changes can help improve ...

Cardiomyopathy can be a diverse diagnosis. There are many different types -- some inherited, others due to injury to the heart, treatment side effects, pregnancy, and a range of other causes. The ...

Cardiomyopathy is a disease of the heart muscle that makes it harder for the heart to pump blood to the rest of the body. Certain kinds can be passed down through the family (inherited). As the ...

For patients with many types of cardiomyopathy, the disease gradually progresses from being "at risk for heart failure" to have structural heart disease, initially without symptoms and then with ...

Nivolumab Plus Chemotherapy in Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor–Mutated Metastatic Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer After Disease Progression on Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors: ...

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) makes it difficult for your heart to pump blood normally due to a thickening and enlargement of the heart muscle. This can block the ventricles in the lower heart, ...

A CNIC team has designed a gene-therapy strategy that could transform the treatment of arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy type 5 (ARVC5), a rare and deadly heritable disease that ...

Attruby is the first near-complete (≥90%) stabilizer of Transthyretin (TTR) approved in the U.S. for the treatment of the cardiomyopathy of wild-type or variant transthyretin-mediated amyloidosis ...