ICT&health May 19, 2025
British researchers have found that MRI scans can help detect a life-threatening heart condition caused by a mutation of the LMNA gene. The condition affects the heart’s pumping function and can cause abnormal, life-threatening arrhythmias such as atrial fibrillation. This discovery may help cardiologists better predict which patients are most at risk.
Lamin’s disease is rare but also often goes undiagnosed. It particularly affects people aged between 30 and 40. About one in 5,000 people carry a potentially harmful LMNA mutation. About 10 per cent of people in whom heart failure runs in the family experience the life-threatening heart disease caused by the mutation.
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Currently, risk estimates are based on data from electrocardiograms (ECGs), which only track...
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