Treating Left Ventricular Outflow Tract Obstruction with Mavacamten
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is the most common type of cardiomyopathy (heart muscle disease), characterized by unexplained thickening of the heart muscle, mainly at the left heart. It is usually caused by a mutation in cardiac genes that control the heart muscle’s motor unit (sarcomere). How does a normal sarcomere contraction work? The sarcomere has a […]
