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Support

Following a young sudden cardiac death CRY offers help to families through our bereavement support programme, as well as helping families to understand what caused the death and to be referred to inherited cardiac conditions specialists.

Awareness

Awareness not only helps identify those at risk, but also ensures correct clinical practice when treating a young person with an inherited cardiac condition.

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Screening

CRY wants All young people to have the opportunity to have heart screening. 1 in 300 people CRY tests will have a potentially life threatening heart condition which will benefit from lifestyle advice, treatment and sometimes corrective surgery.

Research

CRY funds world leading research which is transforming our understanding of the causes and prevention of Young Sudden Cardiac Death as well as the treatment of those at risk.
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Philippa Chowne's Story

Our beautiful, kind, clever, fun-loving daughter died at home on the evening of 14th December 2011. She was fifteen years old, in perfect health and with everything in life to live for. On the day after her death, when we were in deepest shock, we discovered that our darling daughter had trended on Twitter as the…
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Marcella Doherty's Story

Marcella Doherty was only 24 years old when she died of Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy or ARVC. Despite her untimely death being as a result of this undiagnosed killer, Marcella had symptoms in the week prior to her death. Sadly, diagnosis proved inadequate and Marcella was unable to convince the medical establishment about the seriousness of…
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Michelle McFeely's Story

My girlfriend, Michelle McFeely of Coleraine, died on 25th January 2008 aged 30. Post mortem was carried out, but no cause of death was found. When speaking to her sister she said her father’s side had a history of problems with the heart. Michelle had a monitor from the hospital which measured heart palpitations, as she…
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Jonathan Picker's Story

Jonathan and I met back in 1997 and I knew I had found my perfect partner. We married the following year and had several wonderful years before we decided to have a family of our own. In 2002 I gave birth to our beautiful son Thomas. We had so many plans and dreams for our future,…
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Adrian Marchant's Story

My bright loving son died at the age of just 18. He came home from university for Christmas, full of life and excitement at seeing his friends again and telling us how much he was enjoying Southampton studying geophysics. On the morning of 2nd January 1982 I sat on his bed, asking him what he would…
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Ciara Agnew's Story

My sister Ciara was full of life. She was two years younger than me. Growing up we had the usual fall outs sisters have but as we reached our teenage years we became more than sisters, she was my best friend. You would never see one of us without seeing the other one which people still…
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Jimmy and Chrissy's Story

Our family had a very strong history of seizures. It began with Mom and myself and I passed it on to my children. We had been labelled with epilepsy and with medicine we lived a fairly normal life. Chrissy began having seizures at seven years of age and Jimmy began at eleven or twelve. Jimmy was…
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Neil Desai's Story

My son Neil Desai died suddenly and unexpectedly in his sleep on the 5th September 2008, his 22nd birthday, whilst on holiday with his girlfriend in Spain. His death caused immense shock and sadness for our family and his friends. Neil died of an unidentified cardiac condition, which was eventually classified as Sudden Adult Death Syndrome…
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Grant Capell's Story

I lost my baby brother Grant Capell on the 20th March 2007. He was only 16 years old! He was out playing with friends, outside my parents' house in Ireland in the evening. He was giving a young girl a piggy back, when he put her down and complained of being tired and then just fell…
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Joe Parkinson's Story

1st February 2012: me, my brother, my mum and dad all woke up to start a normal day at college and work, not realising that this day was going to change our lives forever and tip our world upside-down. It was 4pm and we were all home. Me and my best friend were having our tea;…
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1 in 100 young individuals have a condition which will require monitoring and could cause health problems later in life
1 in 300 young individuals have potentially life-threatening cardiac conditon

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Cardiac Screening

CRY offers subsidised ECG and Echocardiogram screening to all young people between the ages of 14 & 35. There is a simple way to diagnose most cardiac abnormalities. This is by having an ECG (electrocardiogram) test. Results should be read by a cardiologist. For extra clarity an Echocardiogram (ultrasound scan) can also be done.If there has been a young (under 35) sudden death in the family, the family is entitled to be screened on the NHS. All of CRY’s public events are free to attend.

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