Treatment for rare heart condition available
NHS patients with a life-threatening heart condition are set to benefit from a medicine which can significantly reduce the risk of hospitalisation and death. The drug, tafamidis, is the first approved treatment for a cohort of patients in England with a rare heart condition known as transthyretin amyloidosis cardiomyopathy, where clumps of protein build up in the heart, often resulting in heart failure and potentially proving fatal.