Sudden cardiac death in the active adult: Causes, screening, and preventive strategies

Current Sports Medicine Reports

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 76-82

  Wike, Jeffrey ^a   Kernan, Michael ^a  

^a St Joseph's Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BLUNT TRAUMA; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSEL MALFORMATION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE DYSPLASIA; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; MYOCARDITIS; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SPORTS MEDICINE; SUDDEN DEATH; THORAX INJURY;

ADULT; ARRHYTHMOGENIC RIGHT VENTRICULAR DYSPLASIA; CARDIOMYOPATHY, HYPERTROPHIC; CORONARY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSEL ANOMALIES; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; HUMANS; MYOCARDITIS; RISK FACTORS; SPORTS MEDICINE; THORACIC INJURIES; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 33644873590     PISSN: 1537890X     EISSN: 15378918     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CSMR.0000306077.67322.44     Document Type: Article

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