Thursday, February 1, 2007.
7:00 PM.
Location: Fairchild Auditorium, Stanford University Medical Center
The main feature of hypertrophic
Cardiomyopathy is an excessive
thickening of the heart muscle
(hypertrophy literally means to
thicken). Heart muscle may thicken
in normal individuals as a result of
high blood pressure or prolonged
athletic training. In hypertrophic
cardiomyopathy, however, the
muscle thickening occurs without
an obvious cause and is often an
inherited condition. The incidence of
hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in the
general population is 1 in every 500
people. HCM is the leading cause of
sudden cardiac death in the young.
This talk will focus on the nature
of the disorder and the emerging
research and array of treatments
Stanford doctors use to treat it.
Speaker: Euan Ashley, MRCP,
DPhil, Assistant Professor,
Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford
University Medical Center