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Notes from Dr. RW (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
We've long known that right ventricular pacing is not physiologic. PACE study investigators, presenting at AHA 2009, looked at the difference between RV and BiV pacing in terms of EF after one year in patients with normal or nearly normal systolic function at baseline. By one year there was no difference in 6 minute walk performance or quality of life indicators, but patients in the RV pacing group...
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MRCOG FACTS (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Ischemic heart disease(IHD) in pregnancy Prevalence of IHD in pregnancy is 1:10,000 Incidence of M.I in pregnancy is 7.5:100,000 Over all mortality rate is 37% Risk factors diabetes smoking family history of myocardial infarction before age 60 hypercholesrolaemia history of chronic hypertension Kawasaki disease, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy cocaine use atherosclerosis accounts for less than 50% of cases...
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Notes from Dr. RW (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
This Clinical Perspective piece in Circulation stresses the little appreciated fact that there are actually three types of cardiac amyloidosis: the AL type that we’re used to thinking of as well as two types of transthyretin related disease, the mutant type (of which there are over 100 mutations) and the wild type seen almost exclusively in older men. The three types differ in clinical features...
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Cranky Fitness (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
I'm not a big follower of Fat Acceptance or Health At Every Size . Pretty much all I've read is Kate Harding's Shapely Prose and Melissa McEwan's blogs on the subject, although I did snag a few copies of the original "FAT! SO?" back when it was a 'zine. (Doesn't that bring back memories of the 1990's? Imagine, children: we used to have to self-publish things on paper before Blogger!) Part...
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
A Florida cardiologist is using stem cell therapy to treat patients who suffer from a range of heart, lung and vascular illnesses. The results have been extraordinary. Zannos Grekos, M.D. uses the patients' own stem cells to treat the diseases. "One's own stem cells offer great potential for the treatment of serious heart, lung and vascular diseases," Dr. Grekos said.
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Adventures of a Funky Heart! (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Frank had a problem. Frank had a stroke, and then the doctors diagnosed him with Dilated Cardiomyopathy. That is not a Good Thing to have, as the heart muscle has become enlarged and weakened. Frank was in heart failure, and at the moment, he was not long for this world. So doctors at the Texas Children’s Hospital [...]
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Proceedings of the National Academy (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Defects in nuclear morphology often correlate with the onset of disease, including cancer, progeria, cardiomyopathy, and muscular dystrophy. However, the...
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Science Daily (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Myocarditis is an important, and often unrecognized cause of dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM). Several new diagnostic methods, such as cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), are useful for diagnosing myocarditis, according to a new study.
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MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Veronica De La Cruz , a reporter and former television anchor for CNN news, has written a story for the Huffington Post on her fight for health care reform, and why it is such a personal battle: On July 4, 2009, I lost my brother and my only sibling Eric Alexander De La Cruz . He passed away while awaiting a heart transplant. Five years ago, he was diagnosed with severe dilated cardiomyopathy, a weakening...
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Conquest Chronicles (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Apologies for a lack of posting yesterday, today looks to be busy as well. Quickly... Frankie Telfort wants to play football again ! Not surprising that he has the itch to play so he is going to consult some cardiologists about getting back on the field... Frankie Telfort, a USC freshman linebacker barred from playing because of a heart condition, said he will see cardiologists in December with the...
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Myocarditis is an important, and often unrecognized cause of dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM). Several new diagnostic methods, such as cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), are useful for diagnosing myocarditis, according to a study published in the November 2009 issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings.
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Myocarditis is an important, and often unrecognized cause of dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM).
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
ROCHESTER, Minn., Nov. 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Myocarditis is an important, and often unrecognized cause of dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM).
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Massively (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Emily is a high school junior diagnosed with Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy , who is having a pretty good 2009 in spite of that. She received a heart transplant earlier this year, as well as a little pick-me-up from the Make-A-Wish Foundation . Emily became a Guild Wars fan last year while waiting for her heart transplant and during her recovery afterward. She spent a lot of time in Tyria while living...
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Nipper News (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8316814.stm Experts are questioning how rigorously sperm donors must be screened after nine children have inherited a heart condition from their biological father. The 23-year-old man was unaware of his heritable condition, a cardiomyopathy, that has killed one of the children. Donors are asked if diseases run in the family, but some are not obvious.
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