@article{ref1,
title="Sudden death during performance of sport: forensic medicine elucidation",
journal="Schweizerische Zeitschrift fur Sportmedizin",
year="1992",
author="La Harpe, R. and Rostan, A. and Fryc, O.",
volume="40",
number="2",
pages="65-70",
abstract="Our study deals with cases of sudden death (non-traumatic death) while playing sport which were examined at the Institute of Forensic Medicine at the University of Geneva, and covers the last ten years: 1980-1989. We discovered 19 cases, all men between the ages of 17 to 67. In the case of the younger sportsmen (under the age of 45-50) or when the causes of mortality were unclear, the police requested an autopsy, which totalled 8 cases. In the other 11 cases, we were asked to make an external examination of the bodies, in order to exclude any signs of violence. Seven sportsmen, aged 36-49, who used to play high-risk sports such as football, tennis, basketball and running were autopsied and presented a myocardial infarct. Its interesting that 2 of these cases had also an old scar of a myocardial infarct. The eighth case was a 17 year old boy who had an already known obstructive cardiomyopathy.  Keywords: Soccer <p /> <p>Language: fr</p>",
language="fr",
issn="0036-7885",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}