Coronary artery disease is a hidden danger for kids, can strike without warning

Aug 18, 2023

Coronary artery disease is a hidden danger for kids, can strike without warning

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0.03 -> detecting a killer before it's too late

2.399 -> we're talking about coronary artery

4.56 -> disease it is not an illness that you

6.779 -> typically associate with a child but

9 -> doctors say when teen athletes collapse

11.28 -> it's often the culprit and in most cases

13.41 -> the first symptom is death 7 Action News

16.289 -> reporter Anu Prakash introduces us to a

18.84 -> teen who got the terrifying diagnosis if

23.07 -> a room was dull he would always bring it

25.59 -> up was there something we could have

29.16 -> done was there God says that could have

31.71 -> been given that would have seen

34.41 -> something it's a parent's worst

36.03 -> nightmare a child collapsing during an

38.309 -> athletic event 15 year old Xavier Kader

40.71 -> died in March during basketball tryouts

42.57 -> at Lincoln Park High School Grand Ledge

45.12 -> student Emerson guild collapsed and died

47.129 -> at just 14 during a summer football

49.32 -> workout last month

50.629 -> Theresa mouch knows these heartbreaking

53.1 -> stories could have been her daughters

54.829 -> natalie is heading to Indiana University

56.789 -> a new chapter she doesn't take for

59.19 -> granted because of something she went

61.26 -> through when she was just 13 who's just

64.35 -> overwhelming I was old enough to know

66.119 -> what was going on but still so young and

68.28 -> it was just so scary

70.29 -> doctors following up on a heart murmur

72.18 -> so Natalie this is your ultrasound from

74.13 -> back in March of 2013 discovered she had

76.65 -> coronary artery disease her mom was

79.2 -> stunned to look at her when she was

81.18 -> growing up you would never think there's

83.64 -> anything wrong with her she had no

85.17 -> symptoms and that's typically how cases

87.509 -> like Natalie's go these patients are at

89.52 -> risk for sudden death and usually that's

92.31 -> their first symptoms to better explain

93.99 -> the condition dr. Tom Kimble drew it for

96.27 -> us her right coronary artery did not

99.42 -> come off the proper location it came off

101.579 -> here and coerced over in this direction

104.31 -> so it ran between two other major

106.649 -> vessels when those vessels pumped more

108.81 -> blood during something like exercise and

110.61 -> Natalie played volleyball they ran the

113.04 -> risk of crowding out the artery which

115.11 -> could lead to cardiac arrest terrifying

117.84 -> yeah open-heart surgery if we chose not

121.14 -> to do it it was like a rainbow allow

124.35 -> doctors to move the artery where it

126.21 -> needed to be the prognosis now is

128.31 -> excellent every day

130.28 -> it's amazing getting screened each

132.62 -> season before sports begin can increase

134.96 -> the chances of finding the disease

136.7 -> Natalie's condition is the second

138.5 -> leading cause of high school athletes

140.32 -> collapsing on the field I'm a new

142.64 -> Prakash 7 Action News

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkRebDi6gbc