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Saturday, March 23, 1996 at Troy's Somerset Inn
7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
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• Low Impact Aerobics
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• Walk Your Way to Fitness
• Country Western Line Dancing
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• A Chiropractic _physician will teach
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A Little Signal
Is Cause For Alarm
DR. MARSHALL FRANKLIN SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS
ack "Deep Threat" Phillips
was referred to me after he
fainted at a football game.
He wasn't in the stands; he
was on the field, racing to catch
a long pass that would win the
game for his high school.
"I saw the ball until it hit my
hands," he said. "I thought I had
it. Things turned gray and then
black. They told me I passed out,
but I don't remember it."
Jack was a wide receiver and
got his nickname by "going deep"
to make the big play. He was a
standout at a local high school
and was finishing his senior year.
He was looking forward to a pro-
ductive college career and then
to professional football. Colleges
from all over the country were
trying to recruit him.
Jack's parents had known of a
heart murmur since he was lit-
tle. They told me he never had
rheumatic fever or any other se-
rious illness. He was always the
fastest and best at almost any
athletic game he tried. He wasn't
much of a scholar, but no one
worried about that because his
future was in sports.
As time went on, physicians
continued to hear the heart mur-
mur, but because of Jack's out-
standing prowess, no one felt it
was a deterrent to his playing
sports.
As I examined Jack, he said he
felt a little fatigue during the past
year. On a couple of occasions he
felt lightheaded after a long run
at top speed. He was fast enough
that he didn't have to push him-
self that hard to outrun most of
the defensive backs who tried to
cover him in high school.
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I listened to Jack's murmur.
When he was lying quietly, the
murmur was unimpressive.
When he stood up, however, it got
a little louder, and after running
in place, it was even louder. Jack
had what sounded like an inno-
cent murmur at rest, but it as- <
sumed pathologic proportions
under stress.
I notified Jack's parents of my
findings and recommended some
follow-up studies, including an
echocardiogram. An echocardio-
gram utilizes a sonar array to
visualize a moving outline of the
heart. With it, one can see a two-
dimensional view of the heart
walls and changers, the heart
valves and with the addition of
Doppler wave analysis — detect
directional blood flow. It is truly
an amazing diagnostic instru-
ment, and it is totally safe.
Initially, Jack's parents re-
fused the echocardiogram on the
grounds it might jeopardize a col-
lege scholarship. They knew he
had a normal chest X-ray and ar-
gued that should be enough to
clear him to finish the one game
left in the season. They insisted
his evaluation could wait until af-
ter he had obtained his scholar-
ship.
I try not to be an alarmist, but
the possibility existed that Jack
might have a potentially fatal
heart condition. Jack might have
something we call hypertrophic
cardiomyopathy, the thickening
and stiffness of the walls of the
heart. It predisposes to serious
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irregularities of the heartbeat, es-
pecially under physical and emo-
tional stress. It is one of the more
common causes of sudden death
HEALTH WATCH
Diet and Pharmacologic Appetite
Suppression on an individual basis
with an internal Medicine Specialist
1996 estimated cancer deaths
Dr. Donald L. Kay
Office Hours By Appointment Only
10% Colon& rectum
(810) 932-2911
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2% Cervical
orpts: linspeci
Next time you feed your face, think about your heart.
3% Urinary
Go easy on your heart and start cutting back on foods that are high in saturated
fat and choiesterol. The change'II do you good.
American Heart Association
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20% Mothers
'Exclude. basal and squamoue call skin cancers and carcinoma n eau mewl bladder.
SOURCE: American Cancer Society
Copley News Service/Marshall Ramsey