The blow to the chest of Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin may have thrown his heart’s pumping mechanism out of rhythm, disrupting blood flow to his brain and causing his on-field collapse, two experts said Monday night.
but that his heartbeat was restored on the field before he was taken to a hospital.
If Hamlin were particularly unlucky, the blow may have come during an especially vulnerable moment in the heart’s electrical cycle, triggering a condition known as “commotio cordis,” according to Gregory Marcus, a cardiologist and professor of medicine at the University of California at San Francisco.
While an arrhythmia is the most likely cause of the injury that left Hamlin in critical condition, it is not the only possibility, Dash and Marcus said. The violent contact could have caused a bulge in a blood vessel — known as an aneurysm — to burst, or it may have combined with a previously undetected heart defect to trigger a life-threatening event, among other possibilities, they said.
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