What becomes of the broken hearted?

takotsubo

Patients who suffer from takotsubo commonly known as ‘broken-heart syndrome’ have a worse survival rate than the general population and are just as vulnerable as patients who have suffered a heart attack. In the first ever study to compare takotsubo patients with heart attack patients and the general population over more than 5 years, results […]

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Genetic testing to identify cardiomyopathy in kids

cardiomyopathy

Genetic testing can diagnose cardiomyopathy – a disease of the heart muscle – in children and help detect who will have heart failure and require a transplant, a new study has found. Researchers at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and the Centenary Institute have shown that genetic testing for cardiomyopathy in children and their first […]

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