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My brother is in the hospital with some type of heart failure. I'll get more details tonight I hope.

He has always had this weird fib problem (his heart beats spastic) and they have stopped and restarted his heart twice already(in the past year) and they are doing/did it again today. The idea being that it will "reset" for a while so they can monitor the heart properly. They do not see that as his biggest problem.

The lower ventricle is only contracting/pumping at 10% and his heart is enlarged 2X.

He is only 35.

They don't know the cause, but he has done his and my share of partying over the last 5 -10 years and he is a "bodybuilder"...I don't think I need to elaborate.

He had a chest Xray 6 months ago and his heart was normal size.

The docs know his full history. He had a blood infection a few years back and had some weird ass virus in Africa about ten years ago. They said something about a pericardia(sp) infection.

Sorry for the jumble of info, but I don't have all the data yet. This doesn't sound good does it?