Micah Clayborne was diagnosed with Danon disease, a rare condition, after complaining of chest pains. He needed a heart ...

Many women with serious underlying medical conditions like heart disease need birth control that won't make their conditions ...

Black and Hispanic patients with peripartum cardiomyopathy exhibited greater prevalence of cardiogenic shock and experienced greater in-hospital mortality vs. white patients, researchers reported ...

Each year approximately 1 in 1,000 pregnant women will experience peripartum cardiomyopathy, an uncommon form of often severe heart failure that occurs in the final month of pregnancy or up to ...

Jessica Grib shares her experience with peripartum cardiomyopathy to raise awareness of the heart failure that occurs in pregnant people. When Jessica Grib of St. Louis was about 32 weeks pregnant ...

Key takeaways: Peripartum cardiomyopathy is a distinct disease entity relative to nonischemic cardiomyopathy. The condition is characterized by unique dysregulation of inflammation- and ...

Most women recover, but peripartum cardiomyopathy can be fatal. A 2015 study published in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology found that the condition was responsible for 23 percent of maternal ...

Peripartum cardiomyopathy can occur in pregnant or postpartum mothers during late pregnancy up to five months after birth. The disease is difficult to identify and is often misdiagnosed.

African American women with peripartum cardiomyopathy present with worse symptoms, are less likely to recover, and when they do, take twice as long compared with other groups, a new study shows.

Black women have greater than a three-fold risk of maternal mortality than White women Cardiomyopathy is a leading cause of maternal mortality. Characteristics between groups were compared using ...