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A 13-year-old had chest pains. A rare disease meant he was “close to sudden cardiac death.”

A 13-year-old had chest pains. A rare disease meant he was “close to sudden cardiac death.”

When Dr. Brittany Clayborne’s 13-year-old son Micah came home from school in December 2023, she asked him if he wanted to play football outside. It was one of his favorite hobbies. But Micah said he couldn’t.  “He said, ‘My chest hurts,'” Clayborne recalled. “I was like, ‘What do you mean your chest hurts?'”  The words were terrifying to Clayborne, who …

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