"I'll be forever indebted to them. They will never know the level of indebtedness that I have to them for saving our boy," Syd Grant said.His heart was telling him otherwise. And doctors in Fort Worth rushed to get a clearer picture why a 24-year-old fitness instructor was suddenly hours away from death.
Gohar had discovered that Hayden Grant suffered from myocarditis, inflammation of heart muscle and the heart lining likely caused by a virus, that was progressively compromising his heart's ability to function. A heart biopsy revealed immune cells attacking and destroying healthy heart muscle. A VA-ECMO machine, veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, helped support his heart until steroids and other treatments could reverse the effects of myocarditis.
But thanks to the work of the medical team and Baylor Scott & White All Saints Medical Center, the only cardiogenic shock center in Fort Worth, Hayden Grant has made a full recovery.