{"id":151014,"date":"2022-11-24T14:22:48","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T20:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/hope-for-first-blood-test-to-detect-deadly-heart-inflammation"},"modified":"2022-11-24T14:22:48","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T20:22:48","slug":"hope-for-first-blood-test-to-detect-deadly-heart-inflammation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/hope-for-first-blood-test-to-detect-deadly-heart-inflammation","title":{"rendered":"Hope for first blood test to detect deadly heart inflammation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hope-for-first-blood-test-to-detect-deadly-heart-inflammation2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first blood test to diagnose inflammation of the heart muscle (myocarditis) could be in use in as little as a year, following the discovery of a molecular signal in the blood by Queen Mary University of London researchers. The research, published today in the journal <i>Circulation<\/i>, offers hope of a quick and cheap way of diagnosing the condition.<\/p>\n<p>Myocarditis is a difficult condition to diagnose. Symptoms include a temperature, fatigue, chest pain and shortness of breath, which can all be easily mistaken for other conditions. The gold standard method for diagnosis is a <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/heart\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">heart<\/a> biopsy, an expensive, invasive, and risky procedure which can sometimes still miss signs of the condition. It\u2019s estimated that one young person dies suddenly every week in the UK due to previously undiagnosed myocarditis.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a team of researchers led by BHF Professor Federica Marelli-Berg at Queen Mary University of London have found that the presence of T-cells\u2014a type of white <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/blood\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">blood<\/a> cell\u2014expressing a molecule called cMet in the blood strongly indicates that a person has myocarditis. They say that cMet-expressing T cells levels could be detected through a routine blood test that could cost less than \u00a350 with results available within hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first blood test to diagnose inflammation of the heart muscle (myocarditis) could be in use in as little as a year, following the discovery of a molecular signal in the blood by Queen Mary University of London researchers. The research, published today in the journal Circulation, offers hope of a quick and cheap way [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}