Petitioner, a captain in the New York City Fire Department, first experienced symptoms of nausea, dizziness, lightness of the head and premature weakness while firefighting in 1975, some 19 years after becoming a member of the Department. Petitioner was subsequently examined by several doctors, including Doctors Vitale, Kaltmann, Kornfeld and Seinfeld, cardiologists, all of whom diagnosed petitioner as suffering from a mitral valve prolapse as well as from arrythmia.
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