Kaseem Vauls, a 21-year-old defensive lineman for Jackson State, suffered cardiac arrest Wednesday morning, according to his father, William.
that Vauls was in stable condition — “but still critical,” he added — as of Thursday night. Vauls went into the University of Mississippi Medical Center on Tuesday night with stomach pains and suffered cardiac arrest Wednesday morning.
Vauls was placed on a ventilator and underwent surgery later that afternoon. He’s still “heavily sedated.” A cardiologist informed William that Vauls’ heart was only functioning at around 10-15%, he told The Clarion-Ledger. “What the doctors think happened, that when Kaseem’s heart was failing, that what was giving him the stomach pains,” William told The Clarion-Ledger. “His liver was suffering as fluid built up with toxins in his liver, kidneys and blood. All those toxins built up in his blood stream and his heart could not operate properly and the machine is being used to clean out the blood and toxins.”Kaseem Vauls, a 21-year-old, redshirted at Alabama A&M before transferring to Jackson State.
William tweeted the original news — as well as periodic updates — from his son’s Twitter account, and he
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