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In the world of sports, unexpected health challenges can arise, even among young athletes.

Liners" on showtime and cnn medical analyst dr. jonathan reiner. doctor, i want to start with you on this very significant revelation here. what does this diagnosis of a congenital heart defect mean? >> well, it's a pretty broad category. in bronny's age group, 18 years old, the overwhelmingly most likely diagnosis is a congenital thickening of the heart muscle with also an abnormal architecture of the heart muscle that predisposes the heart to a potentially devastating heart rhythm, which apparently bronny had last month when he collapsed during a game. other possibilities include

Congenital heart defect. there are a lot of players who have overcome this. so it's perfectly reasonable for lebron and ronnie and the whole family to expect that he will get back to the court. i had to mention also that teddy bruschi, whose 13 super bowls with the new england patriots also a congenital heart defect and that's a much more physical sport the basketball even. so we've seen time after time examples of this. the thing also that he can do is look to his own teammate. this is bizarre, but exactly a year to the day that ronnie james collapsed a year earlier. one of his teammates at u...

Safe. osha and the miami buildings department is now investigating. tonight we are learning why bronny james, the son of basketball star lebron james, suffered cardiac arrest while practicing at usc last month. the family say the cause is a congenial heart defect. it went on to say bronny is being treated and is expected to make a full recovery. when we come back, an recall about frozen vegetables that may be in your freezer. my renaissance was daring to dream. (♪) cadillac's renaissance, is daring to go all electric. (♪) so... what's your renaissance? (♪) to give your teeth a dentis...

>> i'm paul reed and this is cnn. >> we now know what caused ronn james, the son of nba superstar, lebron james to suffered cardiac arrest during basketball practice at the university of california last month. in a statement, his family says it stems from a congenital heart defect, which can and will be treated. and they say they are confident that he will make a full recovery and will return to basketball in the near future. so let's talk about it with rachel nichols, host of headliners with rachel nichols. on showtime. and also cnn medical analyst, doctor jonathan reiner. the director of the...