Kim Kirchen most likely done with racing

Anton Berlin

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Jun 28, 2010, 10:44:26 AM6/28/10

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It turns out several other members of his family have the same
condition that caused KK's cardiac arrest. Friends and insiders in LU
are saying he's out for good.

Brad Anders

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Jun 28, 2010, 10:47:56 AM6/28/10

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Did you get any info on what it is? A-fib? Long Q-t? I would have
thought a genetic rhythm disturbance would have been picked up years
ago, I was suspecting it was hypertrophy-induced.

Brad Anders

Steven Bornfeld

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Jun 28, 2010, 2:34:54 PM6/28/10

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I'm curious too. Arrhythmias are hardly rare, even in this age group.
We have some physicians here, don't we? The only heart condition I
remember (and I don't remember much) thought to have a genetic component
is Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome:

http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=4785

(and I could be wrong about the heritable part too).

Steve

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Brad Anders

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Jun 28, 2010, 2:58:59 PM6/28/10

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WPW makes some sense, but I suspect he'd have had many incidents prior
to this year, as you're born with it and the symptoms usually happen
even as a child. There's also some confusion with regard to his "bad
reaction to antibiotics" prior to his first incident this year, either
it's a non-factor or acted in a trigger in some way I don't
understand.

Regardless, if it is WPW, he could get ablation to fix it, with a good
prognosis. Not sure why this would end his career. Maybe it's
something else.

Brad Anders

Anton Berlin

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Jun 28, 2010, 3:21:50 PM6/28/10

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No just that cousins and uncles also have the problem over the last
two decades. I think there will be an official explanation later.

Mike Jacoubowsky

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Jun 28, 2010, 5:21:30 PM6/28/10

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"Anton Berlin" <truth...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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On Jun 28, 9:44 am, Anton Berlin <truth_88...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> It turns out several other members of his family have the same
> condition that caused KK's cardiac arrest. Friends and insiders in LU
> are saying he's out for good.

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No just that cousins and uncles also have the problem over the last
two decades. I think there will be an official explanation later.

=====

Sad that he's finished racing, but fortunate to have pulled through this
episode. It was sounding pretty bad for a while.

--Mike Jacoubowsky
Chain Reaction Bicycles
www.ChainReaction.com
Redwood City & Los Altos, CA USA

Doug Anderson

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Jun 28, 2010, 8:42:55 PM6/28/10

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Steven Bornfeld <bornfe...@dentaltwins.com> writes:

> On 6/28/2010 10:47 AM, Brad Anders wrote:
> > On Jun 28, 7:44 am, Anton Berlin<truth_88...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >> It turns out several other members of his family have the same
> >> condition that caused KK's cardiac arrest. Friends and insiders in LU
> >> are saying he's out for good.
> >
> > Did you get any info on what it is? A-fib? Long Q-t? I would have
> > thought a genetic rhythm disturbance would have been picked up years
> > ago, I was suspecting it was hypertrophy-induced.
> >
> > Brad Anders
>
>
> I'm curious too. Arrhythmias are hardly rare, even in this
> age group. We have some physicians here, don't we? The only heart
> condition I remember (and I don't remember much) thought to have a
> genetic component is Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome:
>
> http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=4785

Or for another possibility that we have too little information to
diagnose, google hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.