DeRosa leaves spring training on a stretcher (Latest: successful heart procedure... reply #7)

[Blancofan1]

Apparently irregular heartbeat which has happened before, but still has to be scary. Will this make them go after Brian Roberts even harder?

http://chicago.cubs.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080223&content_id=2385713&vkey=spt2008news&fext=.jsp&c_id=chc

[TooLiveBrew]

Holy crap is that scary. Best wishes to Mark & his family. And yes, this makes targeting Brian Roberts seem even more relevant than before.

[sheetswannabe]

Saw a small report on a tv at a McDonalds, yes McDonalds!! Saying Mark was ok..

[mothershipconnection]

Scary stuff, I hope things aren't any more serious. I hate when this happens to Cubs players and I have to stop and feel sorry for them when I'm reminded that they're people and not goblins.

[sgtcluels]

That's exactly what their goblin magic wants you to think. Don't be fooled.

 

Hope everything ends up ok for him, and I think I have an irregular heart rate every time I step on the soccer field. That or I'm horribly out of shape.

[Thurston Fluff]

Hope everything ends up ok for him, and I think I have an irregular heart rate every time I step on the soccer field. That or I'm horribly out of shape.

 

Or it could just be your American genes reacting to stepping on a soccer field. Best wishes for a normal life to him.

[ILuvDaBush]

I blame Dusty Baker.

[Zycho32]

According to this, he had a successful Heart Procedure to correct an irregular heartbeat, if anyone was paying attention to the few days' drama concerning him.

 

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=AsUwApnmlvCaN.BX47mmwKERvLYF?slug=ap-cubs-derosa&prov=ap&type=lgns

[razzzorsharp]

Good to hear.

[Baldkin]

He had heart surgery, and he's back in 10 days?

 

Holy. Cripes. Amazing.

[Dragonbait]

Welcome to the World of Modern Medicine.

 

Amazing....

[DrWood]

I don't think it was surgery exactly. my understanding is they do something to induce the arhythmia, find out the minute portion of the heart that is responsible for it, then do **something** to kill that minute bit of tissue. I don't know exactly what is going on, but they aren't cracking his chest or anything.

of course, I'd be scared (nearly) to death if it was happening to me.

[brewers19]

According to the article, that 'something' is radio frequency catheter ablation. So basically they inserted a tube into one of his veins/arteries, ran it up into his heart, and fried off the problematic tissue with an electrode using radio frequency energy.

[TooLiveBrew]

So basically they inserted a tube into one of his veins/arteries, ran it up into his heart, and fried off the problematic tissue with an electrode using radio frequency energy.

 

Just like field surgeons did during the Civil War...

 

http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/1997/iht4297388a.jpg

 

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