"Stiff heart"

Not strictly a pacemaker topic, but a newly available medication.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpwg74zlgl7o.

At over £300 a capsule, expensive.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpwg74zlgl7o#:~:text=Patients with a rare but,cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM).

Please copy and paste the link into your general browser to open.

Patients with a rare but potentially deadly "stiff heart" condition can get a new once-a-day pill treatment on the NHS in England from Monday.

Tafamidis slows the build-up of risky proteins in the heart muscle of people with amyloidosis cardiomyopathy.

Experts say it should save lives, and trials suggest it can cut death risk by about 41%.

The drug is already approved in Scotland, external and draft guidelines for England and Wales now recommend it too.

Amyloidosis cardiomyopathy is the only condition for the heart that this drug is of help.

For those of us with a none-amyloid 'stiff heart' this would not help. Who knows what the future holds for cardiomyopathies?

You know you're wired when...

You make store alarms beep.

Member Quotes

Focus on the good and not the bad.