Sentences with phrase «hypertrophic cardiomyopathy cardiomyopathy»

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African Americans are being misdiagnosed with the heart condition (hypertrophic cardiomyopathy) that caused the sudden death of basketball player Hank Gathers (pictured left with teammate Bo Kimble) in 1990.

He has «apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy» — essentially an enlargement of the heart which is caused by weak heart muscles.

An electrocardiogram revealed an abnormality, and follow - up tests in June confirmed that Carle has hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), a genetic disease that is the most common cause of sudden death in young athletes.

Before his freshman season at Toledo, he was diagnosed with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, the heart ailment that killed Hank Gathers, Reggie Lewis and other young athletes.

having other family members with a «history of premature death (sudden or otherwise), or significant disability from cardiovascular disease in close relative (s) younger than 50 years old or specific knowledge of the occurrence of certain conditions (eg, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, dilated cardiomyopathy, long QT syndrome, Marfan syndrome, or clinically important arrhythmias)».

EDITOR»S NOTE: Lindsay Davis, a former Miss Ohio, is a youth sports health advocate, diagnosed with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy at age 17.

Carrying just one mutant copy of the gene causes an inherited heart problem called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (SN: 9/17/16, p. 8).

Researchers found that the ring - shaped vortex helps to allocate about 15 percent of the blood flow within the left ventricle in healthy patients; roughly 20 percent in patients with non-ischemic dilated cardiomyopathy; but only about 5 percent for patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

In their study Mitalipov and colleagues edited out the MYBPC3 mutation associated with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), a disease of the heart muscle that affects about one person in 500.

For this study, the team of cardiologists recruited 60 subjects, including 20 patients with non-ischemic dilated cardiomyopathy; 20 patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy; and 20 healthy subjects as a control group.

The findings could have an impact on the tests and measurements that physicians rely on to diagnose and treat two heart conditions: hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, in which the heart muscle becomes abnormally thick, and non-ischemic dilated cardiomyopathy, in which the heart's ability to pump blood decreases as the organ's main pumping chamber, the left ventricle, is enlarged and its muscle thinned.

Medha Krishen, Ilina's sister and a junior at Port Huron Northern High School, also presented a study that used an electronic stethoscope to screen student athletes for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM).

A strong heart may be healthy, but too much heart muscle can be fatal: A leading cause of sudden death in young people — particularly in world - class athletes — is a condition called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, or enlarged heart.

Other genetic defects associated with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy — six different genes have been linked to the disease — may work similarly by producing abnormal proteins involved in contraction, says Sweeney.

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is the most common cause of sudden death in otherwise healthy young athletes, and affects approximately 1 in 500 people overall.

For extended modules, many different combinations of perturbed genes could incapacitate the module, as a result of which mutations in different genes will appear to lead to the same phenotype (e.g., hypertrophic cardiomyopathy).

Another lesson learned from hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is knowing the sarcomeric protein involved and the specific mutation does not invariably provide prognostic information about the course of the disease, including the risk of sudden cardiac death.

Constitutive phosphorylation of cardiac myosin regulatory light chain prevents development of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in mice.

We also aim, in the model of cardiomyocyte, decipher implication of mutations identified in cardiomyopathies such as inherited hypertrophic cardiomyopathies (HCM), Atrial fibrillation (AF) or Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC).

Left ventricular outflow tract gradient is associated with reduced capillary density in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy irrespective of genotype.

Most news stories about familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy invariably describe young athletes who die suddenly, felled by a heart condition that no one had suspected.Now a research team led by...

Heart disorders (e.g., atrial fibrillation, and resultant tachycardia (fast heart rate) and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy)

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A mouse model of familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (FHC) is providing scientists with valuable information about whether genes or environment trigger sudden death.

In another study the aim was to find improved quantitative CMR criteria to distinguish LVNC from dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) with high sensitivity and specificity.

We are recruiting and enrolling 10 primary care physicians (PCPs) and 100 of their generally healthy middle - aged patients ages 40 - 65 to evaluate the use of General Genomic Medicine, and 10 cardiologists and 100 of their patients with hypertrophic or dilated cardiomyopathy to evaluate the use of Disease - Specific Genomic Medicine.

Dr. Seidman has investigated the molecular etiology of human diseases, with a focus on congenital heart disease, familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, and familial dilated cardiomyopathy.

The mice had grossly evident hypertrophic cardiomyopathy compared to Idua + / - control mice, which is consistent with other assessments of cardiovascular phenotype [23].

A man with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy served as a donor in the experiments.

Hereditary hypertrophic cardiomyopathy occurs in about one out of every 500 adults, and is passed along when a person winds up with one good copy and one mutated copy of a gene called MYBPC3, the researchers said.

People with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy are at increased risk of heart failure and sudden heart death.

The new procedure tackled a genetic mutation in human embryos that causes hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, an inherited condition in which the heart muscle becomes abnormally thick.

They diagnosed me with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, which is an enlarged heart muscle that limits the body's ability to pump blood.

In this instance, leading scientist Shoukhrat Mitalipov, with help from researchers from the United States and South Korea, used CRISPR to delete a genetic mutation for «HCM,» or hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, in the sperm of a man with the condition.

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We went together to OSU last year to check our hearts, since Momma says that Sphynx are prone to hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM).

If your cat does have a heart disease called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), your veterinarian may recommend medication to relax the heart muscle and increase the effectiveness of its pumping.

It can often go along with a heart murmur and feline hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

She had hyperthyroidism and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, that much is known, and I attributed her odd behaviors to that.

Feline aortic thromboembolic disease (FATE) results from clot formation in the diseased heart, particularly in cats with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is a disease where the heart enlarges as a result of the cardiac muscle becoming thicker and bigger.

The vast majority of heart disease in adult cats is caused by cardiomyopathy (heart muscle disease), primarily hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM).

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is the most common form of heart disease in cats and can cause heart failure, thromboembolism, and occasionally sudden death in cats (see also Cardiomyopcardiomyopathy is the most common form of heart disease in cats and can cause heart failure, thromboembolism, and occasionally sudden death in cats (see also CardiomyopathyCardiomyopathy in cats).

For owners with breeding animals, Dr. Heaney can provide screening to help rule out congenital heart disease like HCM (hypertrophic cardiomyopathy) in cats and degenerative value disease in dogs.

Purpose of the Study: In human heart disease, traceable substances in the blood, referred to as biomarkers, are used to assess severity of a common heart disease called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM).

The Sphynx, for example can suffer from a genetic heart disease called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM).

* Dilated cardiomyopathy - the heart muscle becomes weak and stretched, decreasing the heart's ability to pump blood through the body * Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy - this is more common in cats.

You filed this question under Heartworm disease and that is just one of many reasons they will die suddenly but there are many others: poisons, trauma (even when there are no external lesions), hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, etc etc..

Most hyperthyroid cats will have some degree of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (which is a condition where the heart muscle becomes thickened).

American Shorthairs are generally healthy, however they can be prone to Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a form of heart disease.