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Lora D & # 39; Alesio remembers the moment when her lips began to turn blue and her breath stopped.
"My heart stopped," says the BBC program Victoria Derbyshire . "I was lifeless, I was dead for five minutes.As far as I know, the doctors worked tirelessly to bring me back to life."
Lora suffered a cardiac arrest, which was quite unexpected if she was only 24 years old.
In the UK alone, it is estimated that 80,000 young Britons have undiagnosed heart problems, according to the country's Heart Foundation. In the absence of treatment, these problems can be fatal. In Brazil, according to Datasus, 596 people aged 20 to 29 years died of acute myocardial infarction in 2016.
Lora had a heart attack at age 24 and now has a pacemaker
In the case of Lora, veterinary nurse, infarction happened three years ago
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She lost consciousness when returning from work. She did not know it yet, but she has a heart condition called long QT syndrome, a hereditary condition that affects the heart rate and takes longer to recharge with each beat.
", I said (to my colleague when she turned to me, I was already on the floor and she thought I was joking."
Lora was rescued by the l & rsquo; Emergency team and taken to the hospital, where she spent three days coma.
When he woke up, he cried without stopping. "I was so much confused, "she recalls." You think that only older people fall dead because of heart problems, but not the youngest ones. "At my age, I thought:" No, not at all. " Imagine, I was only 24 years old. "
"He had a serious heart problem, but nothing told him or us that something was wrong with him. . " "Twenty-four hours before his death, he told us about Facetime, and that was normal."
Dan had arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (CVDA) that was weakening the wall cardiac arrest and could cause cardiac arrest.It lost consciousness while playing and his teammates telephoned Barry.
"It's something that shocks you," says Gill, Dan's mother.
Barry wiped her tears as the couple remembered wanting to be able to say to the son "I love you" one last time, and today they run an NGO that distributes defibrillators for use on children. One of them has been used to saving the life of a 14-year-old boy suffering a cardiac arrest while he was playing.
"Happy to be alive"
The young survivor Lora D 'Alesio now spends some of her time at
She has my holding a pacemaker and wearing a defibrillator, which can eventually be used to treat heart disease. to save his life.
"I accept the most random invitations from my friends because you never know when (a cardiac arrest) can recur and kill me.I want to live my life fully.I have the chance to be alive. "
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