Bariatric surgery is an effective treatment for weight loss, and may improve both cardiovascular health and long-term survival. While severe HCM increases the risk of non-cardiac surgery, extreme ...

CYNTHIA Burstein Waldman of Los Angeles got tired of feeling she knew more than her doctors did about her hereditary heart condition, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy; tired of worrying that a provider ...

You could argue that the complications of a disease, rather than the disease itself, create most of the problems associated with that condition. Take hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, or HCM, a primarily ...

Hassan Rastegar, MD, BIDMC HCM Surgical Director, is an internationally known cardiac surgeon. Dr. Rastegar has extensive experience with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and has performed over 1,000 ...

In patients with ischaemic cardiomyopathy, CABG surgery in addition to guideline-directed medical therapy confers a significant survival benefit at 10 years compared with medical therapy alone. These ...

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 ...

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 ...