A diagnosis of stress-induced cardiomyopathy is also known as takotsubo cardiomyopathy and broken heart syndrome. It means the heart has been weakened by an acute period of emotional or physical ...

The diagnosis of a potentially lethal cardiovascular disease in a young athlete presents a complex dilemma regarding athlete safety, patient autonomy, team or institutional risk tolerance and medical ...

Cardiomyopathy weakens, enlarges, or stiffens the heart muscle. Heart failure is when the heart is unable to pump enough blood around the body, resulting in symptoms. Cardiomyopathy is one of the ...

Cardiomyopathy is a disease of the heart muscle that worsens over time and can be life-threatening. The heart muscle weakens and can no longer pump blood effectively. Cardiomyopathy can result from an ...

Cardiomyopathy is a disease that causes unusual changes in the heart muscle and reduces its ability to pump blood. This disease can be present from birth or develop over time. Treatment typically ...

Heart failure is a progressive disease in which the myocardium weakens and cannot pump efficiently (systolic dysfunction) or fill adequately (diastolic dysfunction). Obesity has an important influence ...

Heart failure in which left ventricular ejection fraction recovers into the normal range has many unknowns. Andrew Perry, MD, discusses key management strategies with Jane Wilcox, MD, of Northwestern ...

Reversible left ventricular dysfunction precipitated by emotional stress has been reported, but the mechanism remains unknown. We evaluated 19 patients who presented with left ventricular dysfunction ...

Peripartum cardiomyopathy shares some clinical features with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy, a disorder caused by mutations in more than 40 genes, including TTN, which encodes the sarcomere protein ...

A patient fact sheet outlining the differences between heart failure and cardiomyopathy, including subtypes of each condition and diagnostic procedures for both. Cardiomyopathy is a group of heart ...