[Maru]

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!

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.

[Oliver_W]

Originally Posted by Maru

I'm surprised you know you have it, then. Wow.

My dad survived a heart attack, which is how it came to light. Everyone in the family went for the test after that, now some of us have matching heart implants haha...

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.

Blimey, thank goodness for that "accident" then!