Heart disease is one of the planet’s biggest killers – and some of its deadliest forms often go unnoticed until it’s too late.
Two conditions stand out: Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) and cardiac amyloidosis. Together, they represent some of medicine’s most dangerous diagnostic blind spots.
HFpEF accounts for more than half of all heart failure cases worldwide. But it’s notoriously hard to diagnose this deadly syndrome.
Symptoms don’t always show up on standard heart scans, and routine echocardiograms often miss warning signs. As many as 64% of cases go undiagnosed.
Cardiac amyloidosis, sometimes dubbed the ‘cancer of the heart’ due to its high mortality and quick progression, is equally elusive: up to 66% of patients are missed in clinical practice.
It was this challenge that sparked co-founders Ross Upton, PhD, Chief Executive Officer, and Paul Leeson, Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Oxford, to launch Ultromics – a spinout using advanced AI to detect these conditions early and accurately as part of routine cardiac care.
