Professor John Camm
BHF Prudential Chair of Clinical
Cardiology
St
George's Hospital Medical School,
London
Professor Camm is an expert in heart rhythm
disturbances, which occur when the tightly regulated
electrical activity of the heart develops faults.
Atrial fibrillation
Professor Camm and colleagues are undertaking
many studies of a common rhythm disorder, atrial fibrillation.
These studies include - design and
testing of pacemaker algorithms for control of atrial fibrillation.
The development of implantable defibrillators. Mapping of the
electrics of atrial fibrillation to identify areas of the heart
muscle to treat to eliminate the rhythm. Use of digital recordings
to evaluate the mechanisms initiating atrial fibrillation.
Inherited heart conditions
Heart muscle disorders, such as hypertrophic
cardiomyopathy and dilated cardiomyopathy generally occur in
families. These disorders and other genetic heart conditions, which
may cause sudden unexpected cardiac death through rhythm
disturbance, are under investigation to see how the genetic faults
that cause them impact on our heart’s electrics.
Coronary heart disease
Some people with coronary heart disease can
develop rhythm problems. Several techniques to assess the cardiac
electrical risk of patients with heart disease are being developed
and assessed, using several large databases stemming from
multi-centre clinical trials.
Further information
Read more about how our achievements in pacemaker research and
heart rhythm research have made an
impact.
