News tagged with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
Do all student athletes need heart screenings?
Seemingly every year there are reports of a young, apparently healthy athlete dying on the court or playing field.
Mar 23, 2011 |
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Heart transplant patients with common disorder have high survival rates
Transplant surgery to correct the most common type of genetic heart disease yields similar short-term and potentially greater long-term survival rates as transplant surgery for other heart diseases, according to research ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Aug 24, 2010 |
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Stem cells for first time used to create abnormal heart cells for study of cardiomyopathy
Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine have for the first time differentiated human stem cells to become heart cells with cardiomyopathy, a condition in which the heart muscle cells are abnormal. The discovery will ...
Jun 09, 2010 |
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Sperm donor passed on sudden death heart defect
(AP) -- A sperm donor passed on a potentially deadly genetic heart condition to nine of his 24 children, including one who died at age 2 from heart failure, according to a medical journal report.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Oct 20, 2009 |
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