A ringside doctor wonders how a female boxer could have died in the ring
“Zerlentes, 34, died one day later from what doctors called a subdural hematoma, bleeding beneath a skinlike membrane that covers the brain. Final autopsy results are not expected for two to three weeks.
Simpson has two working theories: Zerlentes was suffering from either an aneurysm – a bulge in the wall of a brain artery – or an arteriovenous malformation – a defect in the brain’s circulation system. Neither an aneurysm nor a AVM typically shows symptoms in most people. Simpson speculates that the blow somehow triggered either to cause bleeding inside Zerlentes head.”
