The injury coincided with a period in which he developed symptoms of viral myocarditis, including heart palpitations, mild chest pains and fever and was diagnosed with a viral infection in his heart.
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:: : I have to admit that the reference provided is a little weak, in that the study was more concerned with identifying infections in viral myocarditis, than in studying sudden cardiac death.
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Nevertheless, viral myocarditis is responsible for 20 % of sudden death, according the Myocarditis Wikipedia article, so it occurred to me that this study might provide some useful evidence of enteroviral involvement in sudden cardiac death; and that this might be a useful scientific clue for someone somewhere.
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He was engaged to Dr . Cynthia Horner, whom he met in 1993 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco while she was attending a psychiatry conference and Barlow was participating in a Steve Jobs comedy New York, days before her 30th birthday, from a heart arrhythmia apparently caused by undetected viral myocarditis.
