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News items on 'Cardiomyopathy'
(BBC 27/10/2009)
Six years ago, Dean Third was just like any other family man - then one afternoon everything changed. He suddenly collapsed. "I never thought at all that I would be struck down with something that would affect my life in the way it did," he said. Dean was diagnosed with a rare heart condition called dilated cardiomyopathy - where the muscle cells of the heart slowly die off. Over time, his heart had become enlarged and increasingly struggled to pump the blood around his body.
Mother tells of heart scare to increase awareness
(The Scotsman 22/09/2009)
A MOTHER who became seriously ill with heart problems while having twins has spoken of her ordeal to help raise awareness. Susan Sneddon, 40, from Barnton, Edinburgh, suffered from peripartum cardiomyopathy - a condition that develops in pregnancy and causes the heart to enlarge and pump less strongly. Her twins had to be induced after 38-and-a-half weeks - one had to be born by Caesarean. Ms Sneddon told her story to raise awareness of the condition that affects one in 10,000 pregnancies.
Full recovery for two hearts girl
(BBC 14/07/2009)
A 16-year-old girl from Wales who made history when, as a baby, she had a donor heart grafted onto her own has made a full recovery (from cardiomyopathy). Doctors say Hannah Clark's own heart is now in perfect working order three-and-a-half years after her "piggy-back" donor heart was removed. Sir Magdi Yacoub, the pioneering surgeon who performed Hannah's original transplant when she was two, said he was "surprised and delighted". The Lancet journal tells her story.
'Faulty genes'
(BBC 09/04/2009)
Claudia Sanford and her children know all too well about how genetics can affect your health. Thirty years ago, Claudia's brother dropped dead after a heart attack. He was just 21. A few years ago Claudia began having heart palpitations. Eventually a genetic test determined that the condition was a rare inherited heart disorder - arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC).
Saved - by an artificial heart the size of a thumb that plugged into the mains
(Daily Mail 13/10/2008)
Around 20,000 Britons suffer from dilated cardiomyopathy, which weakens their heart muscles, putting them at serious risk of heart failure. James Jackson, 22, a labourer from Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, had an artificial heart implanted to keep him alive while his own heart recovered, as he tells Thea Jourdan.
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