Familial Cardiomyopathy Program Patient Stories

A cardiac program enabled brothers to learn they were at risk of a genetic heart condition. Recommended lifestyle changes could save their lives.

It all started when Joy told her mom, Heather, that she was having chest pains. Heather’s family history of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy prompted her to schedule an appointment at the Cardiac Center, where both Joy and her sister, Ryann, were found to have the gene for cardiomyopathy