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Dilated cardiomyopathy: improving care and seeking a cure
Dilated cardiomyopathy means that your heart can’t pump blood around your body properly. There is no cure, and although it can be treated using common heart medications, there are no treatments specifically for the condition. We’ve been funding research to change this.
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Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: understanding the role of tropomyosinUniversity of Kent | Dr Neil Kad
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is an inherited heart muscle disease. If you have the condition, the muscular wall of your heart becomes thickened, making the heart muscle stiff. This thickening makes it harder for your heart to pump blood out ...
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Understanding how genetic alterations lead to hypertrophic cardiomyopathyUniversity of Leeds | Professor Michelle Peckham
Professor Michelle Peckham and her team at the University of Leeds are looking at how changes in genes cause a common inherited heart disease called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, or HCM. HCM is the most common reason for sudden death in a...
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Studying the role of microRNAs in hypertrophic cardiomyopathyKing's College London | Dr Seda Eminaga
A common cause of sudden cardiac arrest in young people is hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). HCM occurs when cells in the heart muscle increase in size. Eventually they can cause the walls of the two cavities in the heart – known as the ve...
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Improving the diagnosis and treatment of dilated cardiomyopathyQueen Mary, University of London | Professor Federica Marelli Berg
Professor Marelli Berg and her team have discovered that in some patients immune cells may cause dilated cardiomyopathy and are searching for ways to stop them. Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is a condition where the heart chambers become ...
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Virtual hearts for risk prediction in hypertrophic cardiomyopathyKing's College London | Dr Pablo Lamata
Dr Pablo Lamata and his team at King’s College London are searching for new ways to help doctors predict the risk of complications in the inherited heart condition, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). In HCM the heart muscle in the left v...
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Investigating the heart cell's response to stretch in hypertrophic cardiomyopathyUniversity of Birmingham | Dr Katja Gehmlich
The heart responds to repeated exercise and other stresses by becoming bigger in a process known as cardiac hypertrophy. In the inherited disease hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), hypertrophy is abnormal and takes place in the absence of e...
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Finding out how a gene mutation causes dilated cardiomyopathyImperial College London | Professor Ralph H Knoll
In this studentship, the researchers will investigate how a mutated gene – the muscle LIM protein gene – causes dilated cardiomyopathy. Dilated cardiomyopathy is a relatively common inherited heart muscle disease, which can lead to heart fa...
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New scanning technique could reveal severity of hypertrophic cardiomyopathyUniversity of Leeds | Dr Irvin Teh
In hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, heart muscle cells lose their normal highly-ordered arrangement and become more randomly arranged. There is also a thickening and stiffening of the heart muscle wall, called fibrosis. This thickening makes it...
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Predicting the risk of serious complications in hypertrophic cardiomyopathyUniversity of Oxford | Professor Dr Stefan Piechnik
Dr Stefan Piechnik and his team at the University of Oxford are developing new ways to predict which people with an inherited heart condition, called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), are more at risk of complications, so doctors can treat...