Prof. Claire Mounier-Vehier and her team have been developing the Cœur–Artères–Femmes (Heart–Arteries–Women) integrated care pathway at University Hospital of Lille’s heart and lung institute for five years. The pathway has four objectives: - monitor medical care with discussions on [...]
Christine, age 46, died from a cardiac arrest on her daughter’s 14th birthday, which was also the day before her oldest son’s wedding. She hadn’t been feeling well that evening, but didn’t say anything to her kids because she didn’t want to ruin the party. But her death could have been [...]
Main causes of heart failure are ischemic heart disease (myocardial infarction) and primary cardiomyopathy, a disease of the heart muscle (myocardium) that can be genetic. Around 30% of transplant patients are women. Among these women, there is a rare but specific cause: peripartum heart disease [...]