Man Who Died for Four Minutes Defies the Odds to Graduate ; It Is the Day Philip Au's Family Thought He Might Never See After the Fit and Healthy 22-Year-Old Suffered a Heart Attack While Running the Bath Half Marathon.

Western Daily Press › December 12, 2008

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It is the day Philip Au's family thought he might never see after the fit and healthy 22-year-old suffered a heart attack while running the Bath Half Marathon.

In March, the keen athlete collapsed at the finishing line as a genetic heart disease he had unknowingly lived with since birth reared its ugly head, stopping his heart for four minutes.

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Man Who Died for Four Minutes Defies the Odds to Graduate ; It Is the Day Philip Au's Family Thought He Might Never See After the Fit and Healthy 22-Year-Old Suffered a Heart Attack While Running the Bath Half Marathon.

A team of paramedics Fought to resuscitate him and he has spent three months in hospital slowly recovering from heart surgery while battling to salvage the deg...

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