Micah True autopsy information (Read 1865 times)

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Don't assume because you're fit and/or thin that your heart is fine.  But, I do wonder, though, what the recommendation is for a person without a known heart problem.  I'm not sure I ever would have had that first EKG if my doctor hadn't heard my murmur all those years ago.  Although, she's always testing me for random stuff, so...

I don't think I've ever had an EKG, at least outside of a hospital/surgical setting.  Every time I hear one of those stories about healthy people who die from undiagnosed heart stuff I wonder why everyone doesn't have their heart checked along with routine blood work and stuff.  My kid had an EKG in the back of an ambulance at a race I was running (he was so fascinated by the ambulance and the paramedics' stuff that they showed him how some of the equipment worked and gave him a print-out of his EKG).  Is it typically an expense thing?

I don't think I've ever had an EKG, at least outside of a hospital/surgical setting.  Every time I hear one of those stories about healthy people who die from undiagnosed heart stuff I wonder why everyone doesn't have their heart checked along with routine blood work and stuff.  My kid had an EKG in the back of an ambulance at a race I was running (he was so fascinated by the ambulance and the paramedics' stuff that they showed him how some of the equipment worked and gave him a print-out of his EKG).  Is it typically an expense thing?

I'll defer to Mamax3 on the expense and utility.  Although, I think one of the Runner's World stories indicated this was a condition that would have been caught had Micah True seen a doctor and apparently, he hadn't seen a doctor regularly.  This story did inspire me to check in again with my cardiologist.  I like running and all, but I'm not trying to die doing it...  About the same time as this story, I was watching the Kentucky Derby and one of the owners had some kind of heart attack and that also scared me.  How can someone have a blockage that bad and it's not caught somehow?  Ugh!  I don't know.  It makes sense that if the tests don't tell you much there's no reason to do them. 

Most heart-related deaths among runners cannot be picked up by an ECG.

 

You can have near-complete coronary artery blockage, and all routine tests will be normal. To discern coronary artery disease, you need relatively expensive and/or invasive testing.

 

Micah True's cardiac condition, which very well may NOT have contributed to his death, was not something that would have been picked up on an ECG or on most (but not all) of the tests that would be used to look for coronary artery disease.

I'm going trust this on faith. 

I'm beginning to understand why heart disease is still the #1 killer in America.  You pretty much just have to wait for something bad to happen.

Well, that is not really true.

Perhaps a bit too fatalist?  You got a glimpse into what it means to be one of my doctors.