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Herzerkrankung von den Doktoren übersehen: Dan Cipriani konnte dank seiner neuen Smartwatch selbst eine supraventrikuläre Tachykardie diagnostizieren
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WORDS BYLINE: Sarah Ingram
The symptoms were scary. Dan Cipriani’s heart rate would speed up and he would feel lightheaded and dizzy - sometimes while exercising and at others while he was at rest.
Dan first went to the doctor when he was 13 with sudden random onset palpitations, but he left the GP’s office without answers.
Dan went back another five times over the years and always left with doctors scratching their heads.
He was given a battery of tests; wearing a heart monitor for days on end or booking into hospital for echocardiograms and ECGs - but nothing was conclusive.
Meanwhile, the episodes kept happening. Dan’s heart rate would reach 220 BPM while sitting down; when it should have been between 60 and 100.
The 32-year-old banking director from London has always been fitness-mad.
He has run countless sub-three hour marathons, three ultra marathons including one 100-mile race and has competed in an Ironman.
He could not be healthier, but each time he would exercise, he would experience these troubling episodes.
‘They happened probably once a fortnight but then became more frequent over the last two years and would last longer, perhaps up to a minute,’ he says.
‘They also always happened during intense exercise. I did an Ironman triathlon and the London Marathon, and my heart rate jumped up to 220 beats a minute during the races, which was scary. I’ve had different diagnoses from stress with my work to potentially low blood sugar’, he explains.
Then, a year ago, he was finally given a diagnosis. After an event where his heart raced constantly at 220BPM, he decided he’d had enough and went back to his cardiologist and demanded answers.
‘My doctor told me to buy a Kardia monitor, which is an ECG device you attach to your phone so you can track a cardiac event when it happens. The day after I bought it, I had an episode and caught it with the monitor, sent it to my cardiologist, and he knew immediately what it w *** Lo
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