Channing Frye Out Indefinitely

Scubetrolis · Post #1 » by **Scubetrolis** » Thu Sep 20, 2012 10:40 pm

Channing Frye has been diagnosed with an enlarged heart and is out indefinitely.

Source: 620 KTAR

Discuss.

KopLegend · Post #2 » by **KopLegend** » Thu Sep 20, 2012 10:41 pm

Get better soon Channing!

Post #3 » by **Miklo** » Thu Sep 20, 2012 10:42 pm

http://www.nba.com/suns/channing-frye-out-indefinitely

Well, that sucks. We have more personnel at those positions but still, this could hurt.

Saberestar · Post #4 » by **Saberestar** » Thu Sep 20, 2012 10:49 pm

Horrible news. He is one of my favorite current players

I understand now why we sign Solomon Jones.

YouTube · Post #5 » by **Kerrsed** » Thu Sep 20, 2012 10:57 pm

Bad news for Frye, but GREAT news for Morris and ONeal!

Scola/Morris
Gortat/ONeal/Jones

EB2 · Post #6 » by **EB2** » Thu Sep 20, 2012 11:18 pm

Wow, I didn't expect to hear something like this today. My best wishes go out to Channing. I hope for a speedy recovery.

Saberestar · Post #7 » by **Saberestar** » Thu Sep 20, 2012 11:21 pm

Channing Frye‏@Channing_Frye

Thanks everyone for your support. I will be ok. It will pass and ill be back we have the best staff in the NBA helping me out.

grumpysaddle · Post #8 » by **grumpysaddle** » Thu Sep 20, 2012 11:36 pm

:/ That sucks. Hoping the dude makes a swift recovery. Wasn't there another player like... last season that had the same thing? And I'm pretty sure he made it back in a few months.

Channing has had such awful luck the past few seasons...

JasonDaPsycho · Post #9 » by **JasonDaPsycho** » Thu Sep 20, 2012 11:41 pm

I absolutely hate Channing Frye but I wish him the best in this situation.

Post #10 » by **rsavaj** » Thu Sep 20, 2012 11:50 pm

http://www.azcentral.com/sports/suns/ar ... heart.html

Out for the season.

sunskerr · Post #11 » by **sunskerr** » Thu Sep 20, 2012 11:51 pm

grumpysaddle wrote::/ That sucks. Hoping the dude makes a swift recovery. Wasn't there another player like... last season that had the same thing? And I'm pretty sure he made it back in a few months.

Channing has had such awful luck the past few seasons...

Jeff Green had an aortic aneurysm.

This is scary and disappointing news. Best wishes for Channing Frye.

YouTube · Post #12 » by **Kerrsed** » Thu Sep 20, 2012 11:57 pm

rsavaj wrote:http://www.azcentral.com/sports/suns/articles/20120920phoenix-suns-channing-frye-enlarged-heart.html

Out for the season.

And the news gets worse. Went from Indefinitely to the entire season.

Post #13 » by **Miklo** » Thu Sep 20, 2012 11:58 pm

rsavaj wrote:http://www.azcentral.com/sports/suns/articles/20120920phoenix-suns-channing-frye-enlarged-heart.html

Out for the season.

Wow, I didn't even realize how serious it was :-?

Get well, Channing

SUN · Post #14 » by **SUN** » Fri Sep 21, 2012 12:06 am

rsavaj wrote:http://www.azcentral.com/sports/suns/articles/20120920phoenix-suns-channing-frye-enlarged-heart.html

Out for the season.

Are you kidding me? This is horrible. In Markieff we trust?

EB2 · Post #15 » by **EB2** » Fri Sep 21, 2012 12:09 am

rsavaj wrote:http://www.azcentral.com/sports/suns/articles/20120920phoenix-suns-channing-frye-enlarged-heart.html

Out for the season.

A whole season! It must suck for Channing right now. Still wish him the best though.

KopLegend · Post #16 » by **KopLegend** » Fri Sep 21, 2012 12:19 am

Gutted for Channing

schnakenpopanz · Post #17 » by **schnakenpopanz** » Fri Sep 21, 2012 12:29 am

the most important thing in life is health. i wish him the best.

harshey1388 · Post #18 » by **harshey1388** » Fri Sep 21, 2012 2:38 am

schnakenpopanz wrote:the most important thing in life is health. i wish him the best.

TRUUUUUUUUU.

Get well soon Channing.

SUN · Post #19 » by **SUN** » Fri Sep 21, 2012 2:40 am

Maybe he'll be able to come back early, you never know, right? He is an athlete after all.

Post #20 » by **rsavaj** » Fri Sep 21, 2012 4:19 am

Asked a cardiologist about it.

He said that whether or not the cause is viral doesn’t matter too much, since if there’s cardiac damage, then there’s probably no longer an active viral infection to try to treat.

He also said that “viral” cardiomyopathy is a diagnosis of exclusion. It is very difficult to figure out whether or not there is an active viral infection upon biopsy, so they try to rule out the other, more visible causes first. As far as we know, he’s not an alcoholic. He hasn’t had chemo or been exposed to other radiation. He could be hypertensive(high blood pressure) but that would be very, very rare in a guy <30. And he’s not pregnant….

So that leaves “idiopathic”(medical term for “we have no idea”), “genetic”, or “viral”. It is very difficult, costly, and time-consuming to do genetic panels to see if patients actually have a heritable genetic defect in their cardiac muscle fibers, to the point that most physicians don’t do them for the majority of patients. That leaves “viral” as the diagnosis.

Since Channing is a multi-millionaire who works for an organization that’s worth hundreds of millions of dollars, I’m sure he’ll be one of the select few to actually get those panels run, but ultimately, whatever the cause is, they’ll still treat his DCM the way they treat any other congestive heart failure. Beta blockers(which lower heart rate and contractility in order to reduce the amount of oxygen that the heart demands, along with treating any potential hypertension), ACE inhibitors(which also treat hypertension, in addition to slowing down the enlargement of the heart), and diuretics(which reduce the fluid overload in the body in order to reduce the amount of congestion in the heart), along with other drugs.

They’ll reevaluate him in December to basically get an initial read on whether or not the treatment is working(is the heart pumping as much blood as it should, is there anything visibly weird on the echo, etc.)

Most patients respond pretty well to treatment after a year. After a year of treatment, there’s 3 outcomes:

1) Heart function has increased and is on its way back to normal. Frye will most likely be back in uniform.
2) Heart function hasn’t gotten better, but it hasn’t gotten worse. It’s just stabilized. Doctors will have to make a judgement call.
3) Heart function has continued to worsen, and he is on his way to heart failure. At that point, they start looking at pacemakers, transplants, etc, but Frye will never play again.

Here’s hoping for option 1.