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There's no way of knowing whether the death of Darryl Kile, the All-Star pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals who died at age 33 from an apparent heart attack in his hotel room two weeks ago, could have been avoided. Detecting heart disease, particularly in the young, isn't that easy. But there are some lessons here that we can all learn from...
Preliminary autopsy results show that Kile had 80% to 90% blockages in two coronary arteries--a pretty common finding in people who die suddenly of heart disease. But that doesn't mean the fatty deposits or plaques clogging his arteries had been there--or had been that large--for long. "Small plaques that burst can be just as deadly as large ones," says Dr. Rose Marie Robertson, past president of the American Heart Association and a professor of medicine at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. "You could have a 30% narrowing yesterday that becomes 90% to 100% with a plaque...
...Louis baseball club hasn't released many details about Kile's medical history other than to say he passed a routine physical during spring training. (It apparently was unaware that the ballplayer's father had died from a stroke after suffering a heart attack at age 44.) Kile's examination probably included an electrocardiogram (ECG), which gives doctors an indirect reading on how well the heart muscle is working by monitoring its electrical activity...
...night before he died, Kile told his brother he was tired and his right shoulder hurt. Unexplained pain that lasts more than five minutes in either arm or anywhere in the chest, jaw, neck or back can be a sign of a life-threatening heart problem. Was it just Kile's pitching arm acting up or a hint that something most serious was wrong? We will never know...
DIED. DARRYL KILE, 33, All-Star pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals; of unknown causes; in a hotel room in Chicago, where the team was to play the Cubs. Kile died four days after leading his team to first place in the National League Central--the second of two blows to the Cardinals last week (see Jack Buck...