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Podcast: PeerView Heart, Lung & Blood CME/CNE/CPE Audio Podcast
Episode: Anjali Tiku Owens, MD - Removing Obstructions for Improved HCM Care: Leveling Up Diagnosis and Management in General Cardiology Practice
Description: Go online to PeerView.com/UBM860 to view the activity, download slides and practice aids, and complete the post-test to earn credit. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is the most common inherited cardiac disease, with a mortality rate estimated to be about three times greater than that experienced by individuals of similar age without HCM. So far, the FDA has approved only one noninvasive treatment option indicated for the treatment of HCM—a first-in-class cardiac myosin inhibitor (CMI) called mavacamten. A second CMI, aficamten, is currently being studied. As timely diagnosis of patients with HCM may reduce or delay the need for in...