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A Family’s Heartbreak Sparks a Lifetime of Heart Help
… Blvd … … Rachel Moyer says she knew her path the day her son Gregory passed away at age 15 in 2000. “The nurses at the hospital told us there should have been an AED at the school,” Moyer says. “From then on, that became our mission.” Moyer’s … first varsity game. He suffered from undiagnosed hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) and tragically passed away later at the hospital. Had he received CPR and intervention from an AED more quickly than he did, there’s a chance he might still be with … a transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) procedure performed by cardiologist Paul Hermany, MD , at Lehigh Valley Hospital–Cedar Crest . … “It was scary, of course, but I met my doctors prior to the TAVR procedure and they were awesome,” …