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Hannah's congenital heart disease
In aid of Congenital Heart Defects Awareness Day, Hannah tells us her story of how her congenital condition has become her greatest strength.
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How does the heart first start to beat?University of Oxford | Dr Richard Tyser
The heart is the first organ to form in an embryo, and must begin to pump early, but exactly how it first starts to beat is not understood. We know that the beating of the heart is caused by calcium, which moves in and out of cells and tri...
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Using high tech imaging to reveal the impact of scarring on the heart’s rhythmUniversity of Glasgow | Professor Godfrey L Smith
The normal heartbeat is coordinated by electrical impulses which spread rapidly through the heart. During a heart attack a blood vessel in the heart is blocked and the tissue supplied by that vessel may die, becoming replaced by scar tissue...
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Finding tiny changes in the heart’s electrics that can stop it staying in rhythm.University College London | Dr Ivan Kadurin
Irregular heart rhythms – called arrhythmias – can be life-threatening. They come in many forms with the most common type, atrial fibrillation, affecting more than a million people in the UK alone. Arrhythmias occur when there is a fault in...
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What are ectopic beats? Can they damage your heart?
Discover the causes, symptoms and triggers of ectopic beats with Senior Cardiac Nurse Julie Ward.
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BHF Professor Barbara Casadei receives prestigious Lucian Award for outstanding research
Professor Barbara Casadei, a BHF Professor at the BHF Centre of Research Excellence, University of Oxford, has received the 2022 Louis and Artur Lucian Award in recognition of her pioneering research into atrial fibrillation (AF).
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Landmark report reveals extent of air pollution damage to the heart and circulatory system
Particles in air pollution cause a wide range of damaging effects to the cardiovascular system, according to a landmark report published last week.
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Is the nervous system involved in abnormal heart rhythms in acquired long QT syndrome?University of Birmingham | Dr James Winter
BHF Intermediate Basic Science Research Fellow Dr James Winter is studying long QT syndrome, a disorder of the heart’s electrical system, characterised by a typical pattern on an electrocardiogram. Long QT syndrome can be inherited beca...
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Studying why sleep breathing disorders can lead to atrial fibrillationUniversity of Birmingham | Professor Dr Paulus Kirchhof
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common form of irregular heart rhythm (arrhythmia), sending the top chambers of the heart (the atria) into spasm. AF is dangerous because it significantly increases the likelihood of stroke, so finding e...