IN-LINE SKATER DIES OF RARE SYNDROME SPURRED BY HIT-RUN.Byline: Jaxon Van Derbeken Daily News Staff Writer A West Hills man hit by a hit-and-run motorist while in-line skating has died after suffering a rare condition triggered by his multiple leg fractures, authorities said Friday. Chris Mann Chris Mann (born 1949) is an Australian composer, poet and performer specializing in the emerging field of compositional linguistics,, coined by Kenneth Gaburo and described by Mann as "the mechanism whereby you understand what I'm thinking better than I do. , 20, suffered two broken legs when he was hit about 6:30 p.m. Oct. 3 as he skated in the bicycle lane on northbound Valley Circle Boulevard, south of Kittridge Street, said Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. police Detective Patrick Ramsey of Valley Traffic Division. The impact may have shattered the windshield on the car, described as a light blue or silver gray Nissan, Toyota Tercel or Volkswagen Rabbit. The car was driven by a white male, 45 to 55 years old, with light-color hair. He was last seen on Kittridge Street just west of Valley Circle Boulevard, Ramsey said. ``The bike lane seems to be a very narrow lane, and you can park between the curb and the bike lane,'' Ramsey said. Ramsey said that Mann died at 6:33 p.m. Thursday at Northridge Hospital Medical Center Northridge Hospital Medical Center is a hospital in the Northridge town of Los Angeles, California, USA. It is currently operated by Catholic Healthcare West. History The hospital was founded in 1955 by Dr. without ever regaining consciousness. ``It had something to do with the trauma itself and the body goes into shutdown, and one by one the organs quit working,'' Ramsey said. Doctors told Scott Mann that his brother suffered from fat embolism syndrome fat embolism syndrome Emboli composed of fat are common, relatively innocuous and may occur in alcoholism, BM biopsy, cardiopulmonary bypass, compression injury, DM, lymphangiography, pancreatitis, sickle cell anemia, corticosteroid therapy; contrarily, the FES is . The rare, untreatable Un`treat´a`ble a. 1. Incapable of being treated; not practicable. disorder is triggered by the breakage of long bones, such as the leg bones. In the disorder, fat that seeps from the marrow of the broken bones forms globules that circulate through the body and into the lungs. The body attempts to metabolize me·tab·o·lize v. 1. To subject to metabolism. 2. To produce by metabolism. 3. To undergo change by metabolism. metabolize to subject to or be transformed by metabolism. the fat, creating toxic fatty acids as a byproduct by·prod·uct or by-prod·uct n. 1. Something produced in the making of something else. 2. A secondary result; a side effect. Noun 1. . The acids then attack body tissue. ``Several of his doctors said this is the most severe case they have ever seen,'' Scott Mann said. Meanwhile, family members want the hit-and-run driver found. ``Somebody's got to know a guy who is driving a car like that - somebody's got to see something,'' Scott Mann said. ``I just want this person to know that he's taken so much from our family. Chris is the most important thing we had in the family,'' he said. Chris Mann was on the dean's list at Cal State Northridge and had hopes to be an attorney specializing in international law in the Pacific Rim. |
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