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| Cameroon footballer, Ekeng |
Cameroonian international
Patrick Ekeng, who died last week playing for his club Dinamo Bucharest, was
suffering from "serious heart problems", autopsy results revealed on
Wednesday.
The 26-year-old collapsed to
the ground seven minutes after coming on as a substitute in a Romanian league
game against Viitorul Constanta last Friday. He was rushed to hospital where
staff were unable to resuscitate him.
The Bucharest Forensic
Institute reported in a statement that he suffered from cardiomegaly (an
enlarged heart) resulting from a left ventricular hypertrophy, and had several
coronary abnormalities.
"He had serious heart
problems," coroner Abdo Salem told Romanian news agency Agerpres.
Ekeng underwent routine medical
tests when he joined the Romanian club in January but they failed to detect
anything untoward.