Article in Daily Telegraph this morning

[Pollypuss]

Title : Doctors hope for antibody that fights heart failure: Heart failure could be cured by using an antibody found in survivors. Team at Royal Free Hospital and University College London reported 3 men aged 68 ,76 and 82 are now free of symptoms after their condition was reversed after spontaneously reversed. This sounds interesting to me because my sister who had a heart attack aged 70 and died aged 89 of something totally different was found not to need her medication and lived on for five years.

[Territorial]

Thats very interesting gee i hope they can help us all with heart failure it would be a godsend..

Anyways good health to you Pollypuss..

[uzininemm in reply to Territorial]

Sorry to put a bit of a dampner on it but it does appear to relate to a specific cause of heart failure.

The condition, a form of amyloidosis affecting the heart.

Link from the Royal Free hospital -

royalfree.nhs.uk/news-media...

[Lezzers in reply to uzininemm]

I thought the same thing. The problem with newspapers articles is that the newspaper picks & chooses the information they feel will generate the most interest, they have no real understanding of what they're printing or any real interest in being truthful. I do know for a fact that they often misquote the experts. No amount of antibodies will reverse damage caused to your heart by a heart attack, sadly articles like this give false hope.

[Pollypuss in reply to Lezzers]

I never really confirmed that I believed this could be the answer to ongoing heart disease but in the family for years - we worried about my sister and really thought she would one day- as she got much older- die of a further heart attack . However we were told when she died that her heart was not the reason for her death and she had been taken off her medication for some time before she died.

[Milkfairy Heart Star in reply to uzininemm]

The Royal Free Hospital is the national centre for caring for people with amyloidosis. It's associated with the medical school at University College London. I am a patient at the Royal Free.

Here's the orginal article from the New England Journal of Medicine.

I agree with Lezzer's comment below about newspaper articles and journalists.

nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/N...