Adolescent patients with obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) who received the drug mavacamten saw a significant improvement in left ventricular outflow tract (LVOT) gradient, a measure of ...

Pressure tracings made from the body of the left ventricle (LV) (A), the body and left ventricular outflow tract (LVOT) (B), and LV body and aorta (C). In B, both catheters record an LV pressure ...

Background. A 61-year-old man presented with shortness of breath and chest pain on exertion. He had been diagnosed as having hiatus hernia 2 years previously and was taking proton-pump inhibitors as ...

MyoKardia just announced that its experimental drug mavacamten improved heart function in patients with an inherited cardiac condition, with eight of 10 showing normal readings after treatment with ...

Physicians at the Minneapolis Heart Institute say they are the first in the world to successfully use a mitral clip as initial therapy in a small series of patients with severe heart failure due to ...