Young people delay seeking help for chest pain leading to increased damage to heart

Woman, 53, becomes UK’s longest survivor of heart and lung transplant

Katie Mitchell had procedure at 15 after being diagnosed with Eisenmenger syndrome, a rare congenital diseaseAt the age of 15, medics feared Katie Mitchell was coming to the end of her life after suffering irreversible lung damage and heart failure from a rare congenital disease.But she defied the odds thanks to a heart and lung transplant, and at the age of 53 she has become the UK’s longest-surviving recipient of such a procedure. Continue rea…

Young people delay seeking help for chest pain leading to increased damage to heart

Mumbai: Although more young people than ever before are consulting cardiologists, there is a tendency among them to ignore chest pain until after subs.