Illinois man diagnosed with heart failure at 22-years-old: 'can happen to almost anyone'
Aug 26, 2023
Illinois man diagnosed with heart failure at 22-years-old: 'can happen to almost anyone'
In 2019, Dantrell Brown was playing basketball in Des Plaines when he knew something was wrong. He was then diagnosed with congestive heart failure at the age of 22.https://www.youtube.com/c/FOX32Chicag …https://www.fox32chicago.com/live https://fox32chicago.onelink.me/KNQ9 ?…https://euklz.app.link/Px4UxyP4Peb https://www.facebook.com/Fox32Chicago/ https://twitter.com/fox32news/ https://www.instagram.com/fox32news/ https://www.fox32chicago.com/newsletters
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0.799 -> so i am known as elva dad
5.68 -> he's a tick-tock influencer young father
8.32 -> and a heart patient
9.679 -> well tonight you're going to meet a
10.96 -> suburban man who's changing the face of
13.2 -> heart failure he's also changing the
14.719 -> conversation about how to treat it
16.72 -> sally schulze reports
20 -> when you see dantrell brown playing with
21.92 -> his son at displays park
23.6 -> you might not guess he's also a heart
25.92 -> patient fighting a battle
27.76 -> this to me just felt like a battle
30.8 -> god gave his battles to his strongest
32.8 -> soldiers not therefore i just felt like
34.559 -> i was one of the strong ones and
36.16 -> just to help other people be strong this
38.96 -> is what's inside of my heart
41.2 -> on tick-tock he's known as lvad dad
44.239 -> where he shares details of his heart
46.32 -> pump called the lvad
47.84 -> that helps his weak heart pump blood i
50.399 -> wanted to give people the courage to
52.239 -> just wear it out in public be who you
54.16 -> are brown was right here playing
56.399 -> basketball back in 2019 when he got
58.719 -> exhausted
59.52 -> started sweating and knew something was
61.6 -> wrong he was soon
62.879 -> diagnosed with congestive heart failure
65.199 -> at the age of 22.
67.28 -> and i think two things one is that heart
70.32 -> failure can happen to almost anyone
72.88 -> and two there are therapies that we have
75.759 -> that really can transform someone's life
78.56 -> dr tony tatulas put in the heartmate 3
81.36 -> lvad for brown in late 2019
83.92 -> right after brown watched iron man i'm
86.96 -> going to be iron man
88 -> that's exactly what i said i said let's
89.439 -> do it let's do it he certainly has iron
91.439 -> in his chest right now
92.799 -> the local company abbott makes this
94.72 -> heart pump and the team behind it took
96.56 -> notice of this tick-tock attention
99.04 -> it helps patients with chronic heart
100.88 -> failure understand that there are
102.56 -> options it just changed me as a person
106.24 -> um it just taught me a lot and just
108.64 -> taught me to
109.439 -> enjoy life and just take it one day at a
112 -> time and
112.88 -> brown hopes to get a transplant one day
115.2 -> and he'll keep
116.079 -> sharing his journey with a whole lot of
118.56 -> heart
119.28 -> in des plaines sally schulze fox 32 news
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J69s1qSSY-g
