Posts Tagged ‘hypertrophic cardiomyopathy’

January 17th, 2012

Selections from Richard Lehman’s Weekly Review: Week of January 16th

This week’s topics include acute MI and potassium levels, cardiac arrest during long-distance running, the anticoagulant idrabiotaparinux, and managing hypertension in the very elderly.


August 4th, 2010

Research Suggests Possible New Early Strategies for HCM

CardioExchange welcomes Carolyn Ho to discuss her study in the New England Journal of Medicine, which looked at myocardial fibrosis as an early manifestation of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). Her team found that levels of serum C-terminal propeptide of type I procollagen (PICP) were higher in mutation carriers without LVH and in patients with HCM than […]