Genetic testing
Genetic Testing For Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
The more you know about your heart, the more informed you can be about your care, and your family’s health.
Answers Can Change What Comes Next
Some forms of cardiomyopathy can be inherited. Genetic testing may help reveal important information about your diagnosis and the health of the people you love.
Why Testing Matters
Why Cardiomyopathy Patients Should Get Genetic Testing
Cardiomyopathy is a serious condition that can lead to heart failure or sudden cardiac death. In as many as half of all cases, it is inherited, meaning it can run in families and affect multiple generations.
Genetic testing can help identify the cause of your cardiomyopathy, inform treatment decisions, and provide potentially life-saving information for your family.
Understand your diagnosis
Testing may provide more information about why your heart condition developed.
Inform your care
Your results can give you and your care team another tool for making informed decisions.
Help protect your family
Results may help relatives understand whether they should discuss screening with a healthcare professional.
Next Steps
Find Out How To Get Tested
- Guide your treatment
- Predict how your condition might develop
- Determine what health risks you face
- Determine if family members are at risk as they get tested as well
- Qualify you for gene-specific therapies currently being developed