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700 grams! Shouldn't the normal heart be close to half that weight?


16 posted on 02/13/2006 5:50:56 PM PST by newzjunkey (In 2006: Reelect Arnold; Get GOP Elected in CA; Halt W's Amnesty for Illegals. Win in Iraq.)
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A normal heart would weight 300 grams in an adult male. My 17 year old nephew did of sudden cardiac arrest due to hypertrophic cardiomyopathy(his toxicology report was clean though)His heart weighed 800 grams according to his autopsy.


17 posted on 02/13/2006 6:18:47 PM PST by LoudRepublicangirl (loudrepublicangirl)
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