Alcohol-induced cardiomyopathy: True to its name, this is a form of heart disease that's prompted by excessive and long-term alcohol consumption. Arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy: Caused by gene ...

According to the Heart Failure Society of America, 6.7 million Americans over the age of 20 have heart failure, and the prevalence is expected to rise to 8.5 million Americans by 2030.

Dilated cardiomyopathy is commonly called DCM for short, and it’s the second most common heart condition in dogs (after mitral valve disease). It’s thought to affect about one in 150 dogs but ...

A new PET/CT imaging technique that visualizes activated fibroblasts in the heart muscle enables early detection of multiple forms of cardiomyopathy, according to research presented at the Society ...

Broken Heart Syndrome mimics symptoms of a heart attack. It can strike after a stressful event, such as the loss of a loved one, a physical shock, or prolonged anxiety. The good news: It's treatable.

The Dilated Cardiomyopathy Precision Medicine Study is an NIH-funded study that was carried out between 2016 and 2021 at around 25 sites around the United States.

They found that those with the highest genetic risk score (in the top 1%) had a fourfold risk of developing dilated cardiomyopathy compared to risk among individuals with an average risk score.

Creation of Engineered Heart Tissue Newborn rats of 1–2 days old were decapitated, and their hearts were rapidly explanted. The isolated left ventricles were treated with collagenase for ...