Chris Singleton hospitalized for heart problems

American striker Chris Singletonformer FC Barcelona player and currently in Anadolu Efes, was hospitalized after severe chest pain that medical examinations showed that the cause was a heart problem, the Turkish team reported on Wednesday.

The player experienced severe chest pain and was rushed to hospital, where he first underwent a coronary angiogram (an x-ray technique that uses dye injected into the chambers of the heart or coronary arteries to produce an image of the blood vessels) which came back “negative”. .

“As a result of the advanced radiological evaluation and cardiac examinations performed on Chris Singleton, doctors discovered pericarditis and bilateral pleural effusion in our player. The examination revealed an aneurysm at the level of the sinus of valsalva of the aorta (anomaly of the heart), but no dissection was observed. Our player will spend Wednesday in the hospital and his condition will be re-evaluated on Thursday,” Efes said.

This is a new blow for the current Euroleague champion, after the traffic accident that center Bryant Dunston experienced last Saturday, in which he collided with a truck trailer. Fortunately, the player did not sustain serious injuries, and the club offered a photo in which he appears only with both hands in bandages.