Over the weekend viewers watched in shock as Bolton Wanderers midfielder, Fabrice Muamba collapsed during a football match against Tottenham Hotspurs. He was not pushed or tackled. Just collapsed. Medical units ran onto the field and started performing actual resuscitation on the pitch. Some fans in the stadium started crying. Fabrice, who is 23years old, had just suffered cardiac arrest. Fabrice Muamba: Medical staff took two hours to get Muamba breathing again and he is now being closely monitored in the Heart Attack Centre at The London Chest Hospital. Cardiac arrest is not the same as a heart attack. Cardiac arrest causes a chaotic rhythm, or the heart to stop completely, while a heart attack is typically a much slower process caused by a blockage in the blood supply to the muscular heart wall. But what would cause cardiac arrest in an otherwise fit individual? SkyNews speculates Hocum - or hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM) - which is caused by a ge
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