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Expertise Centre for Rare Heart Conditions Amsterdam UMC
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Research & partners · Expertise centre

For pharmaceutical partners

Research capacity, registries, and how to work with the centre.

What you would be working with

  • 3 Focus areas cardiac disease, rhythm disease, cardiomyopathy
  • 5 Regional partners across Noord-Holland, Flevoland and Twente
  • 24 European reference networks we take part in ERN GUARD-Heart
  • — Patients under care example figure — replace before launch

Research under way

  • Genetic determinants of arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy

    Recruiting

    Multicentre observational cohort study.

    ERN GUARD-Heart

  • Long-term outcomes after ICD implantation

    Ongoing

    Follow-up of a national registry cohort.

    Netherlands Heart Institute

Recent publications

  1. 2026

    Example A, Example B, et al.

    Phenotypic variability in rare inherited cardiomyopathies.

    European Heart Journal

  2. 2025

    Example C, Example D.

    Family screening uptake after a genetic diagnosis.

    Circulation: Genomic and Precision Medicine

Part of ERN GUARD-Heart

The centre takes part in the European reference network for rare and complex heart conditions, which gives access to cohorts and expertise beyond the Netherlands.
See the network

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