Grieving mum calls for heart checks to beat rare condition Plea after daughter is struck down by cardiomyopathy

From: Evening Times | Date: July 3, 2006| Author: MARIANNE TAYLOR | Copyright information

A HEARTBROKEN mum who lost her daughter to a rare heart condition is calling for routine screening to stop other young people dying.

Bubbly Pamela Mackenzie was just 23 and had a two-yearold son, Kyle, when she was struck down by cardiomyopathy - a condition also known as Sudden Adult Death Syndrome.

She died at the Royal Alexandra Hospital just 30 minutes after becoming ill.

Mum Mary Mackenzie, 59, from Pollok, is campaigning for increased awareness of the condition and b...

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