News & Updates
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HCM and Mental Health
Learning that you have a serious chronic disease can be stressful. Now a group of researchers in Korea provide evidence(Park et al. 2022) that mental health…
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Mavacamten Affects Diastolic Dysfunction
Background HCM patients commonly suffer from diastolic dysfunction(also called heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF), or left-sided heart failure): their hearts do not fill adequately.…
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Expert Consensus on Syncope in HCM
An expert panel of HCM clinicians and researchers has published ( Brignole et al. 2022) a set of guidelines for diagnosing the causes of syncope (fainting)…
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504 Plans and HCM
We understand how challenging it can be to manage life with HCM, and we want to lend a hand. As such, this is the first in…
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Septal Myectomy Today
What’s the status of septal myectomy today? A recent review paper by an Expert Panel for the American Journal of Cardiology ( Maron et al. 2022)…
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Can HCM Patients Use Alcohol, Chocolate, & Coffee?
We hear many different claims about what HCM patients (or heart patients in general) should or shouldn’t eat and drink. This is a big topic, and…
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NYHA Class Categories
Doctors usually classify patients’ heart failure according to the severity of their symptoms. The table below describes the most commonly used classification system, the New York…
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ACC: ORIGINAL INVESTIGATIONS Myosin Inhibition in Patients with Obstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Referred for Septal Reduction Therapy
BACKGROUND Septal reduction therapy (SRT), surgical myectomy, or alcohol ablation, is recommended for obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (oHCM) patients with intractable symptoms despite maximal medical therapy but…
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Training and Experience Count: Myectomy Is Safest at High-Volume Centers
Large study of US myectomies Myectomy is safest at high-volume centers. A study accepted in The Annals of Thoracic Surgery provides new evidence of this. Kimberly…
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The Audacity of Grief
Can we talk about grief for a moment? We all experience loss, and each loss impacts us differently. There is no rule book for processing grief,…
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Cardiac Implantable Device Infections
The HCMA participated in an American Heart Association summit of more than 40 health care professionals to bridge gaps in awareness, detection, and appropriate treatment of…
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Cytokinetics Aficamten Research
REDWOOD-HCM OLE REDWOOD-HCM OLE: First Long-Term Data from Open Label Extension Cytokinetics’ also announced positive data relating to aficamten from REDWOOD-HCM OLE ( R andomized E…
