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Resonancia magnética de dos pacientes con miocardiopatía dilatada. A la izquierda, paciente con fibrosis sin canales de conducción y a la derecha, paciente con múltiples canales.
Research
8 Sep 2026

The findings could help more precisely identify candidates for a preventive implantable defibrillator

Dr. Pablo García-Pavía,
About the CNIC
4 Sep 2026

The research demonstrates the benefit of a new gene silencer for treating the disease

William Joyce
About the CNIC
3 Sep 2026

TROPOSplice proposes an evolution-inspired strategy to improve cardiac relaxation in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and heart failure with preserved ejection fraction.

Pablo García Pavía y Nerea Mora.
Research
4 Aug 2026

Left ventricular hypertrabeculation, an anatomical feature of the heart traditionally linked to higher risk, does not worsen outcomes in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy

Diana Velázquez, Natalia Vicente, Jon Sicilia, María Rosaria Pricolo, Laura Sen, Jorge Alegre y Agata Bak.
Research
7 Jul 2026

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is the most common inherited heart disease and the leading cause of sudden cardiac death in young people and athletes

from left to right: Haruka Toda, Irene García Martín, María Maeve Soto Pérez, Alexia Ramos Gutiérrez, Mirian Nieto Delgado, Demetrio Julián Santiago Castillo, Paola Rocío Riveros Rodríguez, Lucía Pilar López Palomar, Andrés Redondo Rodríguez, Jorge García Quintanilla, Marinela Couselo Seijas, David Filgueiras Rama, and José Jalife.
Research
28 May 2026

The findings, published in Cardiovascular Research, show that the right ventricle has greater metabolic resilience than the left during cardiac arrest caused by ventricular fibrillation.

Dr. Pablo García-Pavía junto con la Dra. Noelia Mora y la Dra. Belén Peiró
Research
21 Apr 2026

The biomarker MR-proADM improves risk prediction in patients with transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM) and is associated with greater disease severity, mortality, and heart failure events.

Pablo García-Pavía, Nerea Mora Ayestarán y Fernando Domínguez
Research
3 Sep 2025

Scientists at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), together with cardiologists from Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro and the Spanish cardiovascular disease research network (CIBERCV), report that the new discovery makes it possible to identify high-risk patients early and refer them sooner to specialized heart failure units

Juan Pablo Ochoa, Pablo García-Pavía, Laura Lalaguna, Marina López-Olañeta, María Arévalo-Núñez de Arenas y Enrique Lara-Pezzi.
Research
9 Apr 2025

A CNIC team has developed an innovative gene therapy strategy for arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy type 5 (ARVC5), a rare and deadly inherited condition that particularly affects young men

RM cardiaca de un paciente con miocardiopatía dilatada (izquierda) y de un individuo sin cardiopatía (derecha). En el paciente con miocardiopatía dilatada el tamaño del corazón esta incrementado y su capacidad de bombeo está disminuida.
Research
19 Apr 2024

The results, published in JACC, suggest that these factors could be used to predict the risk of developing dilated cardiomyopathy and adapt strategies for patient care and disease detection in genetic carriers of the disease