Doc Talk: Hanging on through sickness, surgery and health

Early last year, when cardiologists me “high risk for death. ” The diagnosis hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, is leading cause of in young athletes. problematic gene had caused wall of my left to grow Doc Talk: Hanging to three larger than a normal it a startling abrupt turn in for someone who had enjoyed vibrantly good health, kills more women than cancers combined.

Planned Study Will Assess Effect of Mavacamten on the Need for SRT Among HCM Patients Referred for Invasive Procedures SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. , Sept. 10, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- MyoKardia, Inc. (Nasdaq: MYOK), today announced that it will study mavacamten as a therapeutic alternative to septal reduction therapy (SRT). The study will be conducted at leading HCM centers that regularly perform surgical myectomy or alcohol septal ablation procedures, with support from the established hypertrophic cardiomyopathy surgery referral networks at those centers. The randomized, double-blind study will enroll symptomatic, obstructive HCM patients referred for SRT, and MyoKardia anticipates that enrollment will begin in the first half of 2020. The study’s Executive Committee is being chaired by Steve Nissen, M. D. , Chief Academic Officer at the Cleveland Clinic Heart and Vascular Institute. Milind Desai, M. D. , Director, Clinical Operations, Cleveland Clinic Heart and Vascular Institute, is serving as Principal Investigator.

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