Deborah Birx: COVID-19 cases 'extraordinarily widespread' 'Clearly the university wanted Mr. Gathers to play and they were involved,' Fagel said last week. ''If Gathers had been taking the drug regularly, Dr. Kornblum said, trace amounts would have presumably been found in his blood.
Aug. 1 (UPI) -- Officials say at least 86 people have died this week after drinking illegally-made alcohol in the northern Indian state of Punjab. While answering some questions, the autopsy did not reveal whether Gathers had taken medication prescribed for his heart condition before going into convulsions in the middle of a game March 4 and dying.
''Loyola Marymount's attorney, Martin Burke, did not immediately return a telephone call to The Associated Press.Cardiomyopathy is an unusual group of conditions that have come to be recognized with increasing frequency over recent decades as a result of the use of newer technology like ultrasound, which provides a painless, risk-free way of outlining the anatomy of the heart.There are many different types of cardiomyopathy that are classified according to the location and type of damage. Gathers had undergone extensive tests after he collapsed on Dec. 9 in a game against the University of California-Santa Barbara. ''Due to the speculation concerning cocaine and other drugs, it was important that the toxicology tests showed he was not on any illegal or illicit drugs. Gathers was buried at the Mount Lawn Cemetery in Sharon Hill, Pennsylvania. Sometimes this condition can result from a viral infection, but it is not known if Gathers had such an infection.The autopsy confirmed the diagnosis of cardiomyopathy that had been reported earlier. The length of time it remains in the body varies, but according to experts it is usually at least eight hours.TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers.This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. 'He may have been taking a non-effective dose anyway.
Failure to take the prescribed medication could increase the risk of sudden death.Bruce Fagel, an attorney for Gathers's family, said last week that he intended to file a lawsuit seeking monetary damages. Copyright © 2020 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. An autopsy found that he suffered from a heart-muscle disorder, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Gathers’ autopsy revealed he died of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a heart-muscle disorder that restricts blood flow. He died at a hospital in Marina del Ray on March 4 after collapsing in a West Coast Conference tournament semifinal game.A drug called Inderal, or propranolol, was prescribed but Gathers was reported to have cut down the dose because he felt sluggish while exercising. An autopsy showed that Hank Gathers, the Loyola Marymount basketball star who collapsed in a game and died shortly thereafter, did not take his prescribed heart medicine for at least eight hours before his death and presumably longer, the chief Medical Examiner said here today.The autopsy showed that Gathers, a 23-year-old 6-foot-7-inch senior, died of a heart-muscle disorder, cardiomyopathy, and was not taking illicit drugs.The medical examiner, Dr. Ronald N. Kornblum, identified the cause of death as a disease, idiopathic cardiomyopathy with residual interstitial myocarditis, which damages muscle cells, causing scarring and enlargement of the heart wall, and can set off fatal heart rhythm abnormalities. By Deseret News Mar 15, 1990, 12:00am MST A coroner's autopsy reportedly shows that a heart problem caused Hank Gathers' death, and that the Loyola Marymount basketball player was not using illegal drugs. He underwent a series of tests that revealed he suffered from an irregular heartbeat.
He also found that other muscle cells had grown larger.The scarring is the result of the death of heart muscle cells at an unspecified time in the past. Fagel announced last week that he eventually would file a suit against Loyola in Los Angeles Superior Court. A pathologist examines the anatomy of the heart and uses a microscope to examine slices of the organ that have been stained with chemicals to make the cells easier to distinguish from one another.In Gathers's case, Dr. Riley said, there were no gross abnormalities in the heart. Moreover, while the autopsy showed Gathers died of a 'diseased, inflamed and scarred heart muscle,' there was no indication of what caused Gathers' disease, Coroner's spokesman Bob Dambacher said. An autopsy showed that Hank Gathers, the Loyola Marymount basketball star who collapsed in a game and died shortly thereafter, did not take his …
'Deadliest Catch' deckhand Mahlon Reyes dead at 38 He was a … He said medical records he had examined indicated that someone in Loyola Marymount's athletic department had asked Gathers's doctors to reduce the propranolol dosage.At a news conference after the coroner's report was made public, Fagel said the findings were in line with what he previously thought about what caused Gathers' death, and said that it ''was not a congenital heart problem. He was prescribed Inderal, a beta-blocker that helps control abnormal heart rhythms. Kornblum said in an interview that his office was awaiting results of further tests for the presence of the drug being done by an independent laboratory.People who have collapsed from cardiomyopathy are vulnerable to repeat attacks and sudden death. Gathers, the 11th-ranked scorer in NCAA history, had fainted during a Dec. 9 game against UC Santa Barbara. That is important for the family who knew Hank was clean,' he said. 'It is always difficult to know how many hours ago it was taken,' he said.
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