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Developing a new device to help the failing heart keep up with demandUniversity of Leicester | Dr David Adlam
Heart failure affects hundreds of thousands of people in the UK. It occurs when the heart lacks the power to pump strongly, so oxygen isn’t circulated quickly enough to keep up with the body’s demands. This is a debilitating condition and l...
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A pocket ‘CPR’ coach to save more lives from cardiac arrestUniversity College London | Professor Mark Peters
A cardiac arrest is when your heart suddenly stops pumping blood round your body. This can happen at any age. If someone’s heart stops beating, pushing hard and fast on the front of their chest can save their life. This is called card...
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Chemical messengers in heart failure and hypertrophyUniversity of Oxford | Professor Manuela Zaccolo
Cardiac hypertrophy is when cells in the heart grow too large and cannot pull together efficiently to produce the heartbeat; this can lead to heart failure. One important change that can happen during heart failure is disruption to a proces...
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A clinical trial of drugs to protect the heart in boys with Duchenne muscular dystrophyNewcastle University | Dr John P Bourke
Boys with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) begin to show heart muscle weakness in their teens. Ultimately heart weakness causes symptoms and contributes to premature death from DMD. It may be possible to protect the heart using existing d...
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Developing a heart research tool using fruit fliesUniversity of Sussex | Dr Jeremy Niven
Supervised by Dr Jeremy Niven, a PhD student is studying heart cells from fruit flies to explore its use as a model for heart and circulatory disease research. Despite their obvious stark differences, fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaste...
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Machine learning for personalised prescribing after a heart attackUniversity of Edinburgh | Professor Nicholas Mills
Heart attacks occur when a blood clot blocks a coronary artery. After a heart attack, people are prescribed drugs to reduce the risk of another. This includes medicines to prevent blood clots, often described as 'thinning' the blood. Unfort...
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Using artificial intelligence to identify good candidates for heart surgery in the UKUniversity of Bristol | Professor Umberto Benedetto
People who require open heart surgery must be informed about the risks related to the operation. Currently, heart surgeons in the UK calculate the risk using a mathematical model called EuroSCORE. This model is no longer considered to be ...
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Understanding the role of heme in controlling blood pressureUniversity of Bristol | Professor Emma Raven
Heme is a small molecule that contains iron in the middle of it. Many different proteins in our bodies have heme bound to them - including haemoglobin, the molecule that carries oxygen in the blood. But heme also has other roles in our cell...
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How a remarkable fish could help us mend broken heartsUniversity of Oxford | Dr Mathilda Mommersteeg
Dr Mathilda Mommersteeg and her colleagues at the University of Oxford are studying an unusual fish in the hope it may reveal clues to repairing heart muscle damaged by a heart attack. Astyanax mexicanus is an extraordinary species of fi...