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Shocking In-Game Scare: Chargers Coach Jim Harbaugh Reveals His Bold Plan to Conquer Heart Issues!
Los Angeles Chargers head coach Jim Harbaugh is taking precautions for the next few weeks after he briefly left Sunday’s win against the Denver Broncos. Harbaugh went to the locker room in the first quarter for what was originally described as an illness, but was later revealed to be a heart rhythm abnormality.
“It’s called atrial flutter,” Harbaugh said. “I got into an episode (on Sunday) with it. Doctors checked me out and it got back into a sinus rhythm — normal rhythm — so I came back.”
Harbaugh confirmed the atrial flutter with a cardiologist on Monday. Moving forward, the first-year Chargers coach has been prescribed blood thinners and will be wearing a heart monitor for the next two weeks before being reevaluated, according to Grant Gordon of NFL.com.
“According to Harbaugh, he will wear the heart monitor for two weeks before he is reevaluated,” Gordon wrote. “The coach having an ablation procedure also remains an option. An ablation procedure, per the Mayo Clinic, is a treatment for irregular heart rhythms that uses catheters and heat or cold energy to create small scars in the heart, with the scars blocking faulty signals that cause irregular heartbeats.”
Despite the scare on Sunday, Harbaugh doesn’t plan on missing the Chargers’ Week 7 matchup with the Arizona Cardinals or any games after that
“It would take my heart stopping for me to not be out there on the sideline,” Harbaugh said on Monday.
