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Interviewer: Some of the conditions a kid could have which is very difficult to diagnose that could put you at risk for some cardiac arrest.
Doctor: The most common preexisting condition is something called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with some people would refer to as an enlarge part. Specifically, this occurs when the heart muscle is extremely thickened and it is thickened for no cause. There are no blockages, and there are no obstructions. The heart muscle itself is abnormal and very thickened. And what can occur particularly—was athletics is that the heart muscle can be extremely or irregularly and lead to a fetal arrhythmia and sudden cardiac arrest.
Interviewer: Is there any way picking that up before the event happens?
Doctor: In some patients there is a family history. Certain some group of people with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy inherited through a relative so there are maybe a family history, however many are not. One way to pick that up would be an electrocardiogram. An EKG could often show an enlarge heart.
Interviewer: Would a chest x-ray help it all.
Doctor: It might probably less effective.
Interviewer: But if a heart was very large in chest x-ray, there would be something that was going on.
Doctor: If the heart were dilated, it would be probably more easily pick up than the heart being thickened. Plus an EKG is probably easier to perform. There is no radiation exposure and it is probably less expensive.
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