A 17-year-old Pakistani tennis player has died of a suspected heart attack caused by hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, which causes the heart muscle to enlarge. According to news reports, Zainab Ali Naqvi collapsed in the bathroom of his home after practicing for a tournament and was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital. Read on to learn more about this disease, which causes the heart muscle to thicken and have difficulty pumping blood. Additionally, many people with the disease have few, if any, symptoms, so it often goes undiagnosed.
Zainab Ali Naqvi collapses in toilet after pre-match practice and dies of suspected heart attack
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Pakistani teenage tennis player Zainab Ali Naqvi died of a suspected heart attack after collapsing in the bathroom after practicing before a match, according to reports.
Police said the 17-year-old girl lost consciousness and died while being taken to the hospital by her grandmother, who called for help.
According to reports, doctors suspect that Zainab suffers from hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a disease that causes the heart muscle to thicken. Experts say thickened muscles can make it harder for the heart to pump blood. The disease often goes undiagnosed because many people with it have few, if any, symptoms.
“Doctors suspected a heart attack and ruled the death as a natural cause of death. Since her parents also did not want a post-mortem, they handed over the body to be transferred to Karachi,” the doctor said.
How does hypertrophic cardiomyopathy affect the body?
Doctors say hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is a complex heart disease that causes stiffening of the left ventricle, changes in the mitral valve, and cellular changes in addition to thickening of the heart muscle and heart muscle.
These changes occur primarily in the septum, the muscular wall that separates the left and right sides of the heart. Research shows that problems occur when the septum between the lower chambers of the heart also thickens, blocking and reducing blood flow from the left ventricle to the aorta.
In this condition, other parts of the heart muscle (the bottom apex, the right ventricle, or the entire left ventricle) also become stiff.
Experts say that at the end of the filling, there is less blood, so oxygen-rich blood is not pumped to organs and muscles, and pressure inside the heart increases. This causes the following symptoms:
- sudden chest pain
- shortness of breath
- dizziness or fainting
- palpitations
Doctors say heart muscle cells, which appear disorganized and irregular rather than organized and parallel, cause changes in electrical signals traveling through the lower chambers of the heart, causing abnormal heart rhythms called ventricular arrhythmias. states that it is possible.
What causes hypertrophic cardiomyopathy?
Potential causes of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy include:
According to doctors, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy can be inherited from parents and can be passed on to children. This indicates that there is some kind of defect in the gene encoding the properties of the heart muscle.
It is possible that someone in your family carries the gene for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and never develops the disease.
A sudden increase in blood pressure can also cause this symptom
Most often this symptom occurs with aging
