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 ...

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

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 ...

I went to Mount Carmel Medical Group hospital, and there, cardiologist Thomas P. Archer, MD, diagnosed me with peripartum cardiomyopathy, a weakening and malfunctioning of the heart that can cause ...

The Trump administration's decision to fire the CDC team whose job it was to provide clinical guidelines on how to safely prescribe contraception for women with underlying conditions has put women ...

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.

Peripartum cardiomyopathy is estimated to occur in about 1 in 2,000 live births, with Black women more likely to develop it, according to Dr. Patrick S. Ramsey, ...

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 ...