Competitive sports and dilated cardiomyopathy: The case of a 32-year-old soccer player with ventricular tachycardia;Leistungssport bei dilatativer kardiomyopathie: Kasuistik eines 32-jährigen fußballspielers mit ventrikulären tachykardien

Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift

Volumn 128, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 141-144

  Scharhag, Jürgen ^a   Meyer, T ^a   Gorge G ^b   Kindermann, W ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b KLINIKUM SAARBRÜCKEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METOPROLOL; RAMIPRIL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; CASE REPORT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART DILATATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC VOLUME; HEART PALPITATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; SPORT; TREADMILL EXERCISE;

ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; ADULT; ANGIOTENSIN-CONVERTING ENZYME INHIBITORS; ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; CARDIOMYOPATHY, DILATED; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; METOPROLOL; RAMIPRIL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOCCER; STROKE VOLUME; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR;

EID: 0348112600     PISSN: 00120472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2003-36877     Document Type: Article

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