Health · Healthcare & Policy · 10 hrs ago
Olympic bobsled champion Hausi Leutenegger has incurable heart disease
Hausi Leutenegger, an 86-year-old Swiss entrepreneur and Olympic bobsled champion, is ill.
He has cardiac amyloidosis, an incurable heart disease.
The condition can stop the heart from filling properly with blood.
Leutenegger lives in Freienbach, in Switzerland’s canton of Schwyz.
His diagnosis matters because the disease affects how the heart works, and it is described as incurable.
No treatment or next steps have been reported.
Hausi Leutenegger, an 86-year-old entrepreneur and Olympic bobsled champion, has cardiac amyloidosis.
The disease is incurable, according to the Bote.
The condition can prevent the heart from filling properly with blood.
Leutenegger lives in Freienbach, in the canton of Schwyz.
- Who
- Hausi Leutenegger, an 86-year-old entrepreneur and Olympic bobsled champion.
- What
- He has cardiac amyloidosis, an incurable heart disease.
- When
- Not stated
- Where
- Leutenegger lives in Freienbach, in the canton of Schwyz.
- Why
- Not stated
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- Age
- 86
- Diagnosis
- Cardiac amyloidosis
- Residence
- Freienbach, canton of Schwyz
- Achievement
- Olympic bobsled champion