Posted on 05/17/2012 10:03:40 AM PDT by Smokeyblue
Are they claiming that there was so much thickness that no blood could even get out of his heart?
Would it be called congestive heart failure and would treatment include diet and exercise? Would thickness increase within one year’s time of hospitalization, to the point that no blood could get out of the heart?
Of course there’s something going to happen when you are injected with air.
My dear sainted mother had 80% blockage at least on all counts, and a couple of arteries had rerouted themselves via smaller blood vessels to compensate. Improvise, adapt and overcome. She simply underwent surgery and LIVED. She was much older than Breitbart.
Breitbart was murdered.
There are multiple kinds if heart failure but all would have diet and exercise counselling as part of the treatment. Yes, the way someone dies of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is to block the blood flow out of the heart. It happens suddenly, not gradually. Anything that decreases blood volume can contribute, the most likely here being dehydration. If you know someone who has been told they have hypertrophy not everyone dies of it. There are many milder forms. But when someone does die of it it is usually quite sudden and dramatic - as you can see from game films of sporting events where this has occurred
I don't know. It breaks down to sodium and nitrogen, both unremarkable.
There might be some distinctive metabolite or lasting effect on a protein or something.
True that...
Are they claiming that no blood could get out of Breitbart’s heart?
Nitrogen was 22. Normal range is 8-20.
Sodium was 137. Normal range is 135-150.
It says the specimens were received on 3-9, over a week after death. Toxicology report printed 3-13. Report of the analysts printed April 9. Signed off on April 20th, the day Michael Cormier died - possibly by Daniel T. Anderson, Supervising Criminalist II.
I wonder if the results would be different, depending on how long before the tests were run. Would a week of delay cause levels to normalize? Or do the “normal ranges” listed account for the age of the sample?
Says the blood sample was collected March 7th at 2:33pm. But Breitbart’s funeral was March 6th.
I agree. From the moment I heard of his death, that is what I believed.
Breitbart does not look like a healthy man there IMHO. And as the coroner points out, he does look older than than many 43 year-olds. (Carlson is also 43 BTW.) It’s shocking that Breitbart had congestive heart failure at such a young age, but based on that, what happened is very sad but not a surprise.
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