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Originally Posted by Oliver_W
I have a heart condition called Brugada Syndrome. If you die from it, it's completely undetectable, so a postmortem would show what it did to the heart, but not why it happened, if that makes sense. It's only visible when a certain test is carried out, and that would only be done if someone survived a heart attack and no other disease was known of, and then to the person's relatives.
When athletes etc collapse and die for no apparent reason, they probably had this too!
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I'm surprised you know you have it, then. Wow. We have had kids and athlete collapse here, but I always figured that was due to high heat in most cases...
My grandmother's afib (irregular heartbeat) was caught when hospitalized for a staph infection (that apparently stays in her blood). They "accidentally" hooked her up to a portable heart monitor, and that's how they picked it up. It took a few trips to her outpatient physicians to pick it up on EKG, and took a 24hr test to see it... now shows up during regular visits no problem. It's so weird.
She's on a CPAP for sleep apnea likely due to the fluid build up in her lungs. In either case, her doctors still classified her as "early" CHF, but you can live 10-15+ years no problem I had read... and it's because they have been constantly improving things with the heart. They know so much more now.