A Family with
GREAT HEART Gives Back GRATEFUL FAMILY'S GIFT AND BEQUEST OF $1.5 MILLION TO EXPAND WOMEN'S CARDIOVASCULAR CARE AT ATRIUM HEALTH
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n February 22, 2013, as Charlie Izard and his wife Kathy visited their daughter at her school in New England, their lives changed in an instant. That afternoon at their hotel, Kathy witnessed her athletic husband – an avid fitness enthusiast – experience unusual and frightening symptoms that led the
couple to a local emergency department. There, Kathy learned her husband’s main artery had dissected, causing a major heart attack. Soon the Izards learned that the event was no ordinary heart attack, but one caused by an exceedingly rare cardiac condition: Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection (SCAD). Prevalent among young and middle-aged
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