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Author(s): Rachel Lampert , Michael Ackerman , Sharlene Day Added: 1 year ago
ACC.23/WCC—We are joined onsite by principal investigator Dr Rachel Lampert (Yale School of Medicine, US), Dr Sharlene Day (Penn Medicine, US) and Dr Michael Ackerman (Mayo Clinic, US) to discuss the late-breaking findings from the LIVE-HCM Study. In this trial, investigators aimed to determine the effects of lifestyle and exercise on the well-being of patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy … View more
Author(s): Uchenna Ozo , Sanjay Sharma Added: 3 years ago
Athletes may occasionally succumb to sudden cardiac arrest because of a quiescent cardiac abnormality. These catastrophes are rare, affecting between 1 in 17,000 to 1 in 50,000 athletes, depending on the sporting discipline.1,2 Most deaths affect male athletes participating in explosive sports of a start–stop nature, such as basketball and soccer, and occur during or immediately after exercise.1… View more
Author(s): Cristoph Hasslacher Added: 3 years ago
The prognosis for diabetics with renal insufficiency is still unfavourable even today. The five-year survival of dialysis patients with type 2 diabetes is approximately 30% and as such resembles the life expectancy resulting from a malignant gastrointestinal tumour. The poor prognosis is based on the excessively high cardiovascular morbidity and mortality of these patients whose cause cannot be… View more
Author(s): Jose Luis Zamorano Added: 3 years ago
Heart failure (HF) is a growing and increasingly important chronic disease of the Western world, occurring in at least 2% of the adult population and rising to 3% in those aged over 75 years.1 It is characterised by inadequate systemic perfusion due to impairment of the cardiac pump function. Clinical HF is a progressive condition, typically with high morbidity and mortality rates. It therefore… View more