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The news release issued Nov. 5 wasn’t like most coming from the Alabama basketball program.
The subject line referenced a “medical procedure” for fifth-year senior Riley Norris but this wasn’t routine. This involved the heart. A cardiac ablation was performed on the forward who missed almost all of last season with a back injury.
The surgery is meant to remove heart tissue that is causing an abnormal heart beat, according to the Mayo Clinic. It’s a procedure familiar to Norris since he had the same one done in high school. He said the success rate is 95 percent.
“So, I was the 5 percent it came back,” Norris said. “It was scary because the second time you do it is more dangerous than the first time but we had a good team of physicians that worked on me.”