Dixon, 28, Dies After Collapse

LA Times ^ | 04/07/06 | staff

[Perdogg]

Maggie Dixon, a 28-year-old Southern Californian who coached the Army women's basketball team to its first NCAA tournament appearance this season, died Thursday afternoon, a day after collapsing and being hospitalized, a source close to the family confirmed.

[Perdogg]

sad.

[Perdogg]

[TXBSAFH]

Prayers from TX

[jocon307]

This is really sad. Prayers for her and her family.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Very tall, angular people sometimes have Marfan's Syndrome, or some similar connective-tissue disorder. I wonder if that wasn't the case here.

[Junior]

That's the first thought that crossed my mind. Of course, Marfan's runs in my family...

[kb2614]

Her brother is Jamie Dixon, the Pittsburgh Panthers basketball coach.

She was only 28. Sad.

:-(

[EDINVA]

way too young. prayers for the Dixon family.

[Perdogg]

It makes you wonder. I am sure she wasn't a coach potato.

[ken5050]

When the Army team won the Patriot league title, and qualified for the NCAA tourney, Dixon and the entire team were carried aroudn the court on the shoulders of cadets.

When they brought the league trophy into the dining hall, 4000 cadets stood and cheered madly.

Women's BB had become so popular at WP under Dixon that the football team would show up at games with their faces painted..

What's really disturbing about the story is that she diee while in the CCU at Westchester Medical Center. That's very unusual. WMC has a really lousy rep...That's why Clinton was removed from there to Columbia Presbyterian for his heart surgery....and this IMHO tends to substantiate it. It's possible to die from arythmia, if if occurs where you're far from any help..but in the CCU, all hooked up and wired to monitors..it shouldn't be that hard to regulate and control the heartbeat..

[nuconvert]

I didn't see that she died from arrhythmia. She may have had a stroke.

[FarmerW]

Those just a silly statements. People don't go to a CCU because they are healthy. I don't know anything about that hospital good or bad. But to infer that because people in ICU's expire it isn't a good hospital is just nonsense.

Sadly, medical care, even perfect medical care can not save everyone.

[CBart95]

As a demonstration of respect could you jerks take this stupid cess pool of discussion off line?

[Richard Kimball]

More information here. Prayers.

[Hank Rearden]

As a demonstration of respect could you jerks take this stupid cess pool of discussion off line?

Ummm, excuse me CBart95, self-appointed thread cop - I was actually getting interested in the medical line of discussion, and I've heard of Marfan's.

I'd never heard of her before so I'm not going to join in the "how sad" stuff because I'm not sad, odds are very high that nobody on this thread knows her, and I don't give a damn about sports - but the medical discussion was keeping me reading.

Carry on, gentlemen.

[jamaly]

Very tall, angular people sometimes have Marfan's Syndrome, or some similar connective-tissue disorder. I wonder if that wasn't the case here.

That sure sounds like the probable cause of death. However, my husband had a cousin who collapsed and died very suddenly a few days before he turned 28 years old. He was short and stocky(not exactly fat). They did his autopsy twice and never could determine the cause of death. He did not do drugs and in fact had just had gone to confession about an hour before he died. The doctors said it was probably like SIDS only in an adult.

[CBart95]

Your reply tells us more than we need to know about you.

The thread is a death notice. Appropriate responses cover a wide range.

It doesn't take a "thread-cop" to see the difference...for normal civilized people.

You might wish to take this matter up with someone you respect to sort out this issue and the many others you must be dealing with.

Good Luck.

[CBart95]

For starters, please refer to post #15.

[DollarBill]

Being in cardiac electrophysiology, I can tell you the majority of the time when a young person suddenly dies due to "heart arrhythmia", it is most like Wolf-Parkinson-White syndrome. WPW is an accessory pathway located between the atria and the ventricles. It is also called "pre-excitation" and can be diagnosed via a 12-lead ECG (there is a "delta wave" present in most an accessory pathways, unless it is "concealed"). In layman's terms, WPW is an abnormal pathway that can conduct the electrical signal but lays "dormant" until an aberrant signal conducts through it, from the atria to the ventricle, resulting in ventricular fibrillation if the patient had an episode of atrial fibrillation and/or flutter. Since it bypasses the AV Node and HIS bundle (speed-bumps in the normal conduction) there can be a one-to-one conduction if it bypasses the normal conduction circuit via the bypass tract/accessory pathway. If the atria fibrillates at 250bpm, the ventricle will conduct at 250bpm and, subsequently, fibrillate... leading to sudden death.