Ventricular tachycardia

Olympic Swimming Champion Chalmers Has Successful Heart Op

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Australian Olympic swimming champion Kyle Chalmers on Tuesday said he had undergone successful surgery to treat a worsening heart condition. The Rio 100m freestyle gold medallist announced last month that he was pulling out of July’s world championships in Budapest to get the problem fixed. “Double thumbs up because this time my heart surgery was … Read more

Olympic Swimming Champion Chalmers To Have Heart Surgery

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Australian Olympic champion Kyle Chalmers on Wednesday pulled out of July’s world titles in Budapest to have surgery for a worsening heart condition. The Rio 100m gold medallist suffers from supraventricular tachycardia (SVT), which occasionally causes his heart to race but is not normally life threatening. It forced the teenager to miss Australia’s national short … Read more