Injury Report: Letestu shut down for 6 months with myocarditis- a virus that attacks the heart

[JetsFan815]

Wishing him a speedy and comfortable recovery.

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[kanadalainen]

Not a trivial disease.

 

[Holden Caulfield]

Dont like him on the Jets roster but never good to hear something like this. Best of luck to him.

 

[jetsforever]

Unfortunate news, hopefully he recovers well

 

[Klinger]

As if we all needed another example of why this season is cursed. Best of luck to him.

 

[FFHockey]

Sheesh...that sounds pretty scary. Hope everything goes well for him

 

[WolfgangPuck]

Myocarditis is general term describing infection and inflammation of the heart. To be off for 6 months seems pretty serious

 

[HockeyGuy1964]

Great guy.

This probably ends his NHL career but, on a more important note, here's hoping for a full recovery.

 

[Rheged]

Get better Letestu!

 

[surixon]

Wishing him a fast recovery.

 

[Mortimer Snerd]

Wishing him a speedy and comfortable recovery.

Good to see that he is expected to make a full recovery.

Expect his hockey career is over. That part doesn't bother me a bit.

 

[GeorgeJETson]

Yikes. Glad he'll make a full recovery at least.

 

[Joe Hallenback]

Wow never heard of it before. At least he got one last contract before he can retire now

 

[KingBogo]

All the best and wishing him a full recovery.

 

[nobody imp0rtant]

Wow never heard of it before. At least he got one last contract before he can retire now

With a conservative estimate of 30,000 diseases in the world, only a doctor or a hypochondriac would know of all of them.

 

[Eyeseeing]

All the best and wishing him a full recovery.

This says it all

 

[macmaroon]

Wishing Mark a speedy recovery!

 

[Hank Chinaski]

This is the condition that Alexei Cherepanov apparently had. As you may remember, he died at age 19 of heart failure in the middle of a KHL game.

Scary, and glad that doctors detected this before Letestu put himself in serious danger. Here’s hoping for a full recovery.

 

[Prairie Oyster]

I had viral myocarditis a few years ago. Rushed to emergency and spent just under a week in a cardiology hospital bed.

3 months of 0 exercise. Going to the grocery store and back was draining. After 6 months unless it is severe (some end up needing heart transplants but this report makes it sound encouraging) can get to a more normal routine at the gym and he's lucky he'll have a lot of tools available to monitor himself that normal people won't have access to on a day to day basis for his recovery.

I was on 8 aspirin for a month or two, plus a pill to prevent the aspirin from eating up my stomach, as well as another med or two. It's a life altering event.

Letestu will deal with psychological fear of pushing his heart to the limits of pro athletics. And myocarditis can come back to those that have suffered from it. I completely understand if he rides his contact out on ltir and is then shuffled into a different non playing role on an NHL team.

One measurement they check in blood is Troponin levels. Normal range is somewhere around a "40", while heart attacks elevate into the hundreds, say 200-500. Mine was at a little over 1,300 when I was at the ER.

There's also the Ejection Fraction, which is what % of fluid is ejected with each contraction of the left ventricle of the heart. Normal is 55-70%. People with myocarditis that are severely damaged can be in the 10-30% range. This report makes it sound positive that he is still on the higher end and possibly still close to a normal EF.

Wish him and his family nothing but the best. This isn't a well known thing and his family will be learning a lot about it over the coming days.

 

[lanky]

Thanks for enlightening us @Prairie Oyster

 

[Prairie Oyster]

Thanks for enlightening us @Prairie Oyster

It's rare to see it mentioned outside of the small Myocarditis groups I am part of now, sadly manly are parents that discuss the children and young adults that passed away due to myocarditis.

I'm in my early 30s, played sports throughout my life. Carrying an extra 20lbs of fat but I've ran half and full marathons (not at a competitive pace, mind you) but I go to the gym minimum 3 times per week and have a job in the trades that keeps me active during the day. Don't smoke, don't do drugs, rarely consume alcohol. When I shared the news with my friends when I was in and recently out of the hospital, people think you have clogged up your arteries or had some poor habits, and so I had friends tell me I needed to take better care of myself. There isn't much you can do to prevent it, it's a freak thing, other than now when I am feeling even slightly unwell I won't engage in any stressful physical activity.

 

[sipowicz]

This is the condition that Alexei Cherepanov apparently had. As you may remember, he died at age 19 of heart failure in the middle of a KHL game.

Scary, and glad that doctors detected this before Letestu put himself in serious danger. Here’s hoping for a full recovery.

I personally know someone that went through this some twenty years ago, guy was younger than Letestu at the time and almost didn't make it!

Hope all goes well for Letestu and he can resume his career somewhere in Europe.

 

[ijuka]

Myocarditis is general term describing infection and inflammation of the heart. To be off for 6 months seems pretty serious

Was thinking the same thing. If it was just a mild one, 6 months seems excessive. That's a little troubling. In the worst case treatment-wise you can require a heart implant. Of course, the absolute worst case is having cardiac arrest, stroke etc. due to the infection.

I had viral myocarditis a few years ago. Rushed to emergency and spent just under a week in a cardiology hospital bed.

3 months of 0 exercise. Going to the grocery store and back was draining. After 6 months unless it is severe (some end up needing heart transplants but this report makes it sound encouraging) can get to a more normal routine at the gym and he's lucky he'll have a lot of tools available to monitor himself that normal people won't have access to on a day to day basis for his recovery.

I was on 8 aspirin for a month or two, plus a pill to prevent the aspirin from eating up my stomach, as well as another med or two. It's a life altering event.

Letestu will deal with psychological fear of pushing his heart to the limits of pro athletics. And myocarditis can come back to those that have suffered from it. I completely understand if he rides his contact out on ltir and is then shuffled into a different non playing role on an NHL team.

One measurement they check in blood is Troponin levels. Normal range is somewhere around a "40", while heart attacks elevate into the hundreds, say 200-500. Mine was at a little over 1,300 when I was at the ER.

There's also the Ejection Fraction, which is what % of fluid is ejected with each contraction of the left ventricle of the heart. Normal is 55-70%. People with myocarditis that are severely damaged can be in the 10-30% range. This report makes it sound positive that he is still on the higher end and possibly still close to a normal EF.

Wish him and his family nothing but the best. This isn't a well known thing and his family will be learning a lot about it over the coming days.

Thanks for the info. Hopefully it's not a very serious case here.

 

[GNP]

I had viral myocarditis a few years ago. Rushed to emergency and spent just under a week in a cardiology hospital bed.

3 months of 0 exercise. Going to the grocery store and back was draining. After 6 months unless it is severe (some end up needing heart transplants but this report makes it sound encouraging) can get to a more normal routine at the gym and he's lucky he'll have a lot of tools available to monitor himself that normal people won't have access to on a day to day basis for his recovery.

I was on 8 aspirin for a month or two, plus a pill to prevent the aspirin from eating up my stomach, as well as another med or two. It's a life altering event.

Letestu will deal with psychological fear of pushing his heart to the limits of pro athletics. And myocarditis can come back to those that have suffered from it. I completely understand if he rides his contact out on ltir and is then shuffled into a different non playing role on an NHL team.

One measurement they check in blood is Troponin levels. Normal range is somewhere around a "40", while heart attacks elevate into the hundreds, say 200-500. Mine was at a little over 1,300 when I was at the ER.

There's also the Ejection Fraction, which is what % of fluid is ejected with each contraction of the left ventricle of the heart. Normal is 55-70%. People with myocarditis that are severely damaged can be in the 10-30% range. This report makes it sound positive that he is still on the higher end and possibly still close to a normal EF.

Wish him and his family nothing but the best. This isn't a well known thing and his family will be learning a lot about it over the coming days.

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Interesting post you make here. From my recollection from reading a cardiology book while doing some research, the Ejection Fraction or Factor, refers to how much blood the heart pumps out of the lower left ventricle. I believe from memory -- normal is 5 litres per minute.

Irregardless of this --to have myocarditis at such a young age, probably signals the end to his career, and a lifetime of managing his heart health. Once that kind of thing starts happening -- enlarged heart etc. --it gets a little scary.

I wish the guy all the best in living a healthy, normal lifestyle.

 

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