Focal apical hypertrophy with ace of spades morphology reinforces the diagnostic value of echocardiography in suspected hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

The Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM) Program at University of Utah Health is one of the nation’s few programs for comprehensive HCM evaluation and management. Our multidisciplinary team works ...

"Women come significantly later to their cardiologists and have the same peri-procedural [alcohol septal ablation] complications and worse long-term outcomes, which are caused by their older age; ...

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) ...