Cardiomyopathy Support & Resources

Battling heart disease is a long and difficult journey. The Cardiomyopathy Program at Cincinnati Children’s is committed to family-centered care and providing all the resources a family needs to help them on their journey.

Cardiomyopathy Success Stories

View success stories from some of our cardiomyopathy patients below.

Berlin Heart Device Bridges the Way to Boy's Heart Transplant

Surgeons at Cincinnati Children's helped bridge the way to his transplant with something called a Berlin Heart, a device that helped his heart pump until a heart was available for transplant. "It was life or death," his mom says. And it worked. This is Ethan's story.

Heart Patient Adopts Philosophy that 'Life Goes On'

Lydia Clark was diagnosed with restrictive cardiomyopathy after a cardiac arrest episode when she was 16. Lydia now sees Cincinnati Children's specialists in the Cardiomyopathy and Advanced Heart Failure Clinic at the Heart Institute.