Christie Brinkley never could have guessed that her mom was struggling with atrial fibrillation, a heart arrhythmia that can ...

including a CT scan that found a mass on her heart, a shocking discovery in someone so young. She was terrified. “My heart dropped and my ears felt hot,” she recalls. “How did it form?

After years of heart failure Johnson to got a heart transplant to save her life. Now she volunteers for the American Heart Association’s Go Red for Women. Photo by Wiley Price I St. Louis ...

Her parents, Elaine Yong and Aaron McArthur, would later learn she had left ventricular non-compaction cardiomyopathy, which can cause heart problems like arrhythmias and heart failure.