Happy Father’s Day! I’ve had a lovely day: bike ride and some yoga with my daughter, a few holes of golf with my son (who bought be some personalised golf balls with instructions not to lose them!) and will be having a bbq in the sunshine then watching the football. Pretty much a perfect day.
The most interesting consultation I had this week was with a patient of a similar age to me, who was extra-ordinarily fit. Top 1% type fit. Made me look sedentary! Tragically, a new heart condition means exercise is now to be discouraged. There are very few instances where that is the case, but this is one of them: arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy – literally – a heart muscle disease which is characterised by arrhythmia, and in this case often serious heart rhythm disturbances which can be fatal.
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