Myocarditis and sudden cardiac death in athletes. Diagnosis, treatment, and prevention;Myokarditis als Ursache des plötzlichen Herztodes bei Sportlern : Diagnose, Behandlung und Prävention

Herz

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 299-304

  Frick, Matthias ^b   Pachinger, Otmar ^c   Pölzl, Gerhard ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Athletes; Inflammatory cardiomyopathy; Myocarditis; Prevention; Sudden cardiac death

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; INTERFERON;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ATHLETE; CLINICAL FEATURE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; GOLD STANDARD; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HUMAN; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 6; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; MYOCARDITIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARVOVIRUS; REVIEW; SUDDEN DEATH;

DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; HUMANS; MYOCARDITIS; SPORTS;

EID: 67650760075     PISSN: 03409937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00059-009-3237-2     Document Type: Review

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