Colin Meek
looks beyond the dramatic headlines to investigate what's known about
sudden unexpected and unexplained deaths
In
June this year 28-year-old Manchester City and Cameroon footballer
Marc-Vivien Foé collapsed during an international match in Lyon. Medical teams struggled to resuscitate him but he died later
in hospital. His death
stunned the football world and the millions of people watching the match.
Mr
Foé; was at the peak of his career and outwardly fit and healthy. A first autopsy failed to confirm a cause of death. But two weeks later, a second autopsy found that he had a heart
condition known as hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), an incurable
condition that causes excessive thickening of the heart muscle.
Marc-Vivien
Foé
