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In my particular case, Wolf-Parkinson’s has been known to kill young people (a college basketball player about 20 years ago comes to mind). My case was fixed wi
by mikestew 7y ago
In my particular case, Wolf-Parkinson’s has been known to kill young people (a college basketball player about 20 years ago comes to mind). My case was fixed with ablation. I asked the cardiologist, “isn’t that what killed that ball player a few years back?”
“Yup. And if it hasn’t killed you by now (in my 40s), it probably isn’t going to.” Didn’t make the tachycardia (rapid pulse) anymore fun when an incident occurred, but at least it wasn’t probably going to be fatal.
And as additional anecdata, I’ve seen a Cat 1 bicycle racer in his mid-30s drop dead mid-race from a heart-related thing. Just kind of quit riding and fell over; from my non-professional observation, it was a literal case of “dead before he hit the ground”.