In a podcast for Pharma radio, Prof. Claire Mounier-Véhier, MD, who cofounded Women’s Cardiovascular Healthcare Foundation (Agir pour le Cœur des Femmes) with Thierry Drilhon, shared what the foundation will be doing with some big cities in autumn 2021 to support women using a gynecardiology care [...]
Why a Heart Bus? • Because every day, cardiovascular disease kills more than 200 women in France and 25,000 women around the world. We want to tackle this urgent medical and societal crisis by reducing cardiovascular mortality. We focus on prevention rather than treatment [...]
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 [...]