article_snippet: Patients with CAPS like Park have a 48 per cent mortality rate, primarily due to sudden cardiac arrest .
article_snippet: a blood disorder called catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome (CAPS) has only been diagnosed about 400 times.
article_snippet: a blood disorder called catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome (CAPS) is 'a rapidly progressive life-threatening disease that causes multiple organ thromboses and dysfunction in the presence of antiphospholipid antibodies', according to the Journal of Intensive Care Medicine.
article_snippet: Patients with CAPS have a 48 per cent mortality rate, primarily due to sudden cardiac arrest.
highlights_snippet: Scott Park has  rare blood disorder catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome .
  