Primary cardiomyopathy is an inherited heart muscle disease, which increases the contractility and cardiac output in filling and pumping blood into the heart, eventually leading to irreversible heart dysfunction. This disease affects all ages and races, also associates with heart failure, arrhythmia and sudden cardiac death. The common type hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is the enlargement of heart muscle without any noticeable pathological reason, and it is known as the main cause of sudden cardiac death in young athletes.

Medtimes in-house developed MYH7 Cardiac Genetic Test targets MYH7 gene that relates to familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, primary dilated cardiomyopathy, myosin storage myopathy and so on. This test helps to identify carriers before the on-set of the disease, allows affected individual to recognize the potential risk and perform preventive actions according to the instructions of cardiologist.