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Heart valve problems, Rheumatic fever and heart disease
Heart disease "runs rampant" through Peter's family. He's encouraging people talk openly about ...
Carer’s story
Aylene cared for her brother Jason during his final journey with heart disease. She opened her home ...
Arrhythmia, Cardiac arrest, Cardiomyopathy
There's no doubt Ash's two cardiac arrests were life-changing events. But it was the anxiety that ...
Heart attack
Gordon had been having chest pains for months, but he ignored them, assuming he'd be alright. Since ...
Cardiac arrest, Heart attack, High blood pressure, High cholesterol
After a heart attack and cardiac arrest, Steve knows he's lucky to be here. Since then he's lost 20 ...
Angina, Heart attack, High blood pressure
Reflecting on his heart attack, Trent realises how subtle signs and symptoms can be. Now he's doing ...
Cardiomyopathy
Nic's life was thrown into turmoil when she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2005. During ...
Aortic aneurysm, Aortic dissection
'Aortic dissection' became a well-known term for Janine in 2013 when she experienced the first of ...
It was more than a month before Nalda found out that the severe breathlessness she’d had one night...
Arrhythmia, Congenital heart disease
Born with a rare congenital heart condition, doctors didn't think Emma-Kate would survive into ...
Aortic aneurysm
When Margaret suffered a ruptured aortic aneurysm in a small town on the East Cape, she had to be ...
Cardiac arrest, Heart valve problems
Kate was visiting her newborn daughter in hospital when she felt pain in her chest and collapsed. ...
