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 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 ...

Rare genetic variants known to cause cardiomyopathy, an inherited cause of a weak heart, can increase the risk of patients ...

A diabetes drug called dapagliflozin may help prevent heart failure in people with genetic variants linked to cardiomyopathy, ...

Nonischemic cardiomyopathy is when problems with your heart muscle aren’t due to reduced blood flow. Instead, causes include genetics, infections, and autoimmune conditions. Cardiomyopathy is the ...

Peripartum cardiomyopathy is a form of acute and sometimes severe cardiac degeneration that leads to clinical heart failure during pregnancy or in the early postpartum period. The disorder is ...

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 ...

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 ...