Citation

Puig J, Freitas J, Costa O, de Freitas AF. Rev. Port. Cardiol. 1994; 13(1): 59-62, 9.

Vernacular Title

Morte subita em atletas.

Affiliation

Serviço de Cardiologia, Hospital de S. João, Porto.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1994, Sociedade Portuguesa de Cardiologia, Publisher Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

8155351

Abstract

Identifying all athletes at risk for exercise-related sudden death is difficult because systematic reliable screening is expensive. Nevertheless, if a perfect screening method existed, an appreciable number of athletes at increase risk for sudden death would not be identified. We think that a careful history designed to identify symptomatic athletes and a rigorous family history of congenital heart disease may be the most practical screening method.

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