BUFFALO, N.Y. – The American Heart Association has issued its first scientific treatment statement for pediatric cardiomyopathy, a rare disorder affecting the structure of the heart muscle that can ...

Credit: Getty Images HCM is a genetic disease, usually caused by mutations in sarcomere proteins such as myosin, actin, tropomyosin, and myosin-binding protein C. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) ...

An analysis of two large cohort studies finds that carriers of disease-causing variants within genes for three ...

Drosophila -- known as fruit flies -- are a valuable model for human heart pathophysiology, including cardiac aging and cardiomyopathy. However, a choke point in evaluating fruit fly hearts is the ...