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More than 18 years after Loyola Marymount All-American Hank Gathers collapsed during a basketball game and died shortly thereafter, mysteries remain about sudden cardiac death and the leading killer of young athletes, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM).
More than 18 years after Loyola Marymount All-American Hank Gathers collapsed during a basketball game and died shortly thereafter, mysteries remain about sudden cardiac death and the leading killer of young athletes, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM).
"All of those are major improvements," Perriello said. "But there are still a number of sudden deaths in athletes every year, and a number of those end up being undetected, unknown cardiac abnormalities. ... There are still youngsters that, had they had the EKG and the echo, it still would not have been identified."
Those questions, along with a new test for Marfan's syndrome (another cause of sudden death) and more advanced cardiovascular testing, "have all done a pretty good job," said Dr. Vito Perriello, chairman of the sports medicine advisory committee of the National Federation of State High School Associations.
