Baylor Bears sophomore guard King McClure’s basketball career is in jeopardy following a diagnosis of hydrotrophic cardiomyopathay, a condition that enlarges the muscles of the heart. Speaking to Jason King of Bleacher Report, Mayo Clinic physician Dr. Michael Ackerman detailed McClure’s condition.
Ackerman told the McClures that HCM can affect patients in seven different ways, but that only one of the seven factors (a slightly enlarged heart wall) was prevalent in King.
“Given King’s flavor of HCM, his chance of experiencing an HCM episode that could be life-threatening is about one-to-two percent per year,” Ackerman said.