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ASU's Montoya back after career-threatening heart scare/azcentral.comPublished by
ASU's Montoya back after career-threatening heart scarePublished by Jeff Metcalfe/azcentral.com on September 17, 2015 Bernie Montoya is running in a race Friday for the first time in 10 months. In between, one of Arizona State's most high profile track/cross country recruits was told by doctors at the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale that due to a heart disease called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, he would need to stop competitive running and have a defibrillator installed to protect against a heart attack like what killed Loyola Marymount basketball star Hank Gathers in 1990. Just days after his 20th birthday in December, while at home in Yuma for the holidays, Montoya was tossing a football with friends when he felt dizzy and blacked out. "They knew I had an enlarged heart, but the thing that threw everything off (was) scar tissue in the heart," he said of an MRI finding at Mayo. "It was a shocker. One moment, you've had a good career, I've been healthy, then all of a sudden your life changes in an instant." Rather than starting his second college track season in March, Montoya started down the long, slow road to a second and third opinion. His sister, Beatrice, a nurse who formerly worked at Phoenix Children's Hospital, used her connections at PCH to connect Bernie with cardiologist Dr. Andrew Papez. After a metabolic stress test and second MRI, no scar tissue was found and Montoya was told in March, "You have a perfectly healthy, functioning heart. Once you put that defibrillator in, you can't go in that MRI ever again. That was dodging the bullet." Montoya was far from cleared to resume running due to concern about electrocardiogram readings. He was required to complete a full six-month deconditioning to monitor a more normal rather than athletic heart. "I was a couch potato," Montoya said. "That was hard. I knew my body, I felt I was OK, but the doctors were not going to allow me run." Read the full article at: www.azcentral.com
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ASU's Montoya back after career-threatening heart scarePublished by Jeff Metcalfe/azcentral.com on September 17, 2015 Bernie Montoya is running in a race Friday for the first time in 10 months. In between, one of Arizona State's most high profile track/cross country recruits was told by doctors at the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale that due to a heart disease called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, he would need to stop competitive running and have a defibrillator installed to protect against a heart attack like what killed Loyola Marymount basketball star Hank Gathers in 1990. Just days after his 20th birthday in December, while at home in Yuma for the holidays, Montoya was tossing a football with friends when he felt dizzy and blacked out. "They knew I had an enlarged heart, but the thing that threw everything off (was) scar tissue in the heart," he said of an MRI finding at Mayo. "It was a shocker. One moment, you've had a good career, I've been healthy, then all of a sudden your life changes in an instant." Rather than starting his second college track season in March, Montoya started down the long, slow road to a second and third opinion. His sister, Beatrice, a nurse who formerly worked at Phoenix Children's Hospital, used her connections at PCH to connect Bernie with cardiologist Dr. Andrew Papez. After a metabolic stress test and second MRI, no scar tissue was found and Montoya was told in March, "You have a perfectly healthy, functioning heart. Once you put that defibrillator in, you can't go in that MRI ever again. That was dodging the bullet." Montoya was far from cleared to resume running due to concern about electrocardiogram readings. He was required to complete a full six-month deconditioning to monitor a more normal rather than athletic heart. "I was a couch potato," Montoya said. "That was hard. I knew my body, I felt I was OK, but the doctors were not going to allow me run." Read the full article at: www.azcentral.com
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