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I was in Kansas last week doing some P/R and set up four our next heart screening event at Kansas State University in Manhattan, KS, Sunday, October 26. While I was there I visited the at the Cotton O'Neil Heart Center in Topeka, KS, one of the cardiac nurses told me about a study a doctor from their facility had done serveral years ago. This doctor (no longer at the O'Neil Center) was trying to determine if a child's untreated ear infections attributed to HCM they later developed.
Well, of course that peeks my interest. In our family we don't seem to have a genetic link to HCM. Anthony died at age 20 of a undiagnosed case of HCM. At this point we still don't have other family members (living or not) with a diagnosis. Anthony also had some very severe ear infections as a young child. Eventually he got tubes in his ears, but I'm just wondering if that could have had anything to do with his HCM.
Has anyone of the HCM experts (Dr. Maron or colleagues) done studies that could link untreated ear infections as a child to HCM in early or later years? If not, could we pose the question to them.
Just wondering out loud.
Thanks,
Sharon
www.AnthonyBates.org
Well, of course that peeks my interest. In our family we don't seem to have a genetic link to HCM. Anthony died at age 20 of a undiagnosed case of HCM. At this point we still don't have other family members (living or not) with a diagnosis. Anthony also had some very severe ear infections as a young child. Eventually he got tubes in his ears, but I'm just wondering if that could have had anything to do with his HCM.
Has anyone of the HCM experts (Dr. Maron or colleagues) done studies that could link untreated ear infections as a child to HCM in early or later years? If not, could we pose the question to them.
Just wondering out loud.
Thanks,
Sharon
www.AnthonyBates.org
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