Understanding how ageing heart cells affect recovery after a heart attack
Diagnostic
Heart attacks, caused by blockages in the coronary arteries, cause a lack of blood to the heart.
Damage can persist even after the blockage is removed, potentially causing heart failure. Rapid ageing of heart cells after a heart attack causes the release of proteins which contribute to this damage. This project is going to explore whether measuring the levels of these proteins in a patient’s blood is a good predictor of recovery from a heart attack.
This will provide insight into how to improve post-heart attack recovery and reduce the chance of heart failure.
The development of a new AI-supported model for imaging the heart based on data from over 700 people with atrial fibrillation, allow ablation to be more personalised to individual patients.
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