And thankful that there was so much expertise, and will. It's physical. Often you have to ask someone to take over. But it's crucial, in the early minutes — CPR keeps something pumping, and with a lack of oxygen any organ soon starts to die, the heart and brain needing the most, and the quickest. If it's allowed to conk out, it's the end. Shortly after 7pm, the ambulance slewed around the last corner in Bethnal Green. The London Chest Hospital has teams of cardiologists, brain specialists, and something that they call "intensitists".
Some had been listening to the match on the radio, and wondering whether they might get the call to readiness. The journey had been six miles longer, on a Saturday teatime, than it might had the ambulance made a routine trip to the North Middlesex, were it not for the intervention of Deaner. According to him: "We went straight into the lab and I put a bigger line into a vein under his shoulder blade and quickly scrubbed up.
We got access to arteries and a bigger vein and carried on giving shocks and drugs. Muamba's team physician, Jonathan Tobin, was suddenly out of the loop. Against all expectations, Muamba regained consciousness on the Monday after his collapse. He recognised his fiancee, Shauna Magunda, and asked after their son Joshua.
Within hours he had talked to a team-mate and expressed dismay to his father that his collapse caused the match to be abandoned. By Tuesday, Muamba was declaring himself "fine", but he remains in intensive care at the London Chest Hospital and, according to his family, faces a long road to recovery. Experts say the swift action of medics at the scene undoubtedly helped his chances.
But heart specialists at Cardiff University found two vital proteins in heart cells are to blame for the previously inexplicable cause of death. A rare genetic mutation in some people causes the two proteins to 'not communicate' with each other. Professor Tony Lai, from Cardiff University School of Medicine, said: 'A healthy and regular heartbeat is maintained by precise control of the calcium level in heart muscle cells.
He said: 'When calcium levels rise the heart contracts - and when the calcium levels drop the heart muscle relaxes, similar to the upstroke and downstroke of a motor engine.
He added: 'Abnormal changes in calcium levels disrupt the smooth cycling between cardiac contraction and relaxation that leads to irregular heartbeat and sudden death. The Cardiff scientists say drugs could be developed to give doctors a new weapon in the fight against sudden cardiac death.
Match of the Day presenter Gabby later launched the Daniel Yorath appeal in his memory. After his recovery he supported campaigns to prevent deaths from sudden cardiac arrests. The former Bolton Wanderer's star's heart stopped beating for 78 minutes after he collapsed suffering hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in the FA Cup quarter final against Tottenham in March Presenter Gabby Logan, left, lost her brother Daniel Yorath to the condition when he was just 15 years old, in Pinpointing the people at risk is difficult but doctors are working to try to prevent this devastating condition from causing needless future deaths.
Dr Riddington works in the cardiology department at the Friarage hospital in Northallerton, Yorkshire. Fabrice Muamba. Footballers like Fabrice Muamba collapse due to high level of fitness. Hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy, nicknamed hocum, is a disorder that makes the heart of young athletes operate like that of an year-old. Dr Tom Riddington. Topics Fabrice Muamba Health features. The fact remains, though, that the cardiac arrest suffered by Congo-born midfielder has stunned footballers, football supporters and the wider community.
We assume that our sporting heroes, whose focus in life is the achievement of physical excellence, are immune to the ailments that beset mere mortals.
We assume that our sporting heroes are immune to the ailments that beset mere mortals. How was it, then, that someone who had trained as a footballer from an early age, who was regularly subject to the physical programming and body tests which all professional athletes undergo, succumbed to cardiac failure? The most common cause of sudden death is hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, which results from a thickening of the heart muscle.
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