Researchers present first risk calculator for pediatric hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in Lancet study

A decade-long quest to understand why some children with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy do well under medical management while others die of heart failure or sudden cardiac death showed some babies are at highest risk for dismal outcomes and yielded a risk calculator cardiologists can use to evaluate which of them diagnosed with the rare condition should be considered for a heart transplant in the immediate future. Inspired by the story and advocacy of a mother who lost two infant sons to the disorder characterized by a thickening of the heart walls, the Miller School's Steven E. Lipshultz, M...