The violin teacher who coughed

From ABC News:

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (KABC) — Violin teacher Constance Meyer of Beverly Hills had a nagging cough for nearly two years. But a parent of one of her students thought it was something more serious….

At 72, Meyer, a virtuoso concert violinist, shares her talents with her students. But for a year and half, unexplained chronic coughing disrupted the music.

Last summer, Meyer started teaching 6-year-old Alina, the daughter of UCLA cardiologist Dr. Megan Kamath. She couldn’t help but notice her cough.

“This had been going on for such a long time,” said Kamath.

And what really rang the alarm bells for Kamath was that when Meyer was moving around and exerting herself, she would cough more than when she was standing still.

“When your heart artery reaches a sort of critical level of blockage, you can’t get enough oxygen or blood supply to the rest of the heart muscle,” said Kamath.

She urged Meyer to get to UCLA Health as soon as possible.

“We found this significant blockage in her left anterior descending artery which is the main artery that supplies the heart muscle,” Kamath said.

“I was a ticking time bomb. I could have dropped dead at any moment,” said Meyer….

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