​School student dies of heart attack; doctor says he had the "rarest of the rare diseases" for his age: Know details​

A class 12 student from Gujarat's Rajkot has died due to a heart attack. The 17-year-old collapsed inside the classroom and was declared brought dead in the hospital. The boy, Mudit Nadiyapara, is said to be a student of Lal Bahadur Shastri High School. As per reports, he was given CPR by his teachers and the school principal. His teacher says he started sweating profusely and collapsed within minutes.

Mudit's father, a security man in the Civil Hospital, told TOI that his son never contracted COVID infection. He also told the media that he had taken two doses of vaccines and had no illnesses. His teachers have told the media that Mudit was having cold and fever a few days before but he looked healthy when he came to school that day.

Mudit was suffering from the rarest of rare kind of heart complications, a doctor, who was part of the autopsy team has told TOI. The doctor has said that due to the condition, he was suffering the left ventricular wall of his heart was very thick and there were no muscles on the other side and only fiber tissues. "Had he lived 2-3 years more, this part of his heart would have got ruptured," the doctor told the media outlet.

The condition where the left ventricular wall of the heart thickens is medically referred to as left ventricular hypertrophy. It is a critical heart condition as the left ventricle is the main pumping chamber of the heart. This makes the heart difficult to pump blood. MayoClinic says, "Left ventricular hypertrophy itself doesn't cause symptoms. But symptoms may occur as the strain on the heart worsens."

When the condition worsens, the patient experiences signs like shortness of breath, swelling of legs, chest pain when doing strenuous activity like exercising, repeated episodes of palpitations, and lightheadedness.

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Mutations in sarcomeric genes are one of the main causes of this type of cardiomyopathy. Apart from this, inherited metabolic errors like lysosomal storage diseases, and fatty acid oxidation disorder also cause this heart complication. As per a health report, neuromuscular diseases and mitochondrial diseases account for more than 30% of children with this form of cardiomyopathy.