Clinical Picture
And then you have to deal with
a genetic heart disease...
Hereditary predisposition to heart disease is all about DNA mutations that can cause serious heart problems for some gene carriers.
Some DNA coding errors reduce the heart’s ability to pump blood properly, causing rapid fatigue and shortness of breath: this is called “heart failure”. Other DNA coding errors prevent the electrical impulse from passing from one heart muscle cell to another: this can cause “cardiac arrhythmias”.
1 of
people can have a predisposition to genetic heart disease
chance of
that gene carriers can pass on heart disease to their children
En now? What to do?
If a specific cardiomyopathy type is diagnosed by yourself or a family member, the next step is to discuss it with your GP or cardiologist, so that you can talk about possible treatments and health perspectives on time. But you first need to be well informed and also prepared to all the choices available in your case.