Precompetition cardiac assessment of football players participating in the 2006 FIFA world cup Germany

Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 322-325

  Thünenkötter, Thomas ^a   Schmied, Christian ^b   Grimm, Katharina ^c   Dvorak, Jiri ^c   Kindermann, Wilfried ^d,e  

^a CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c FIFA MEDICAL CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE   (Switzerland)

^d SCHULTHESS CLINIC   (Switzerland)

^e SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cardiac risk factors; Football; Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy; Precompetition cardiac assessment; Prevention; Sudden cardiac death

Indexed keywords

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM EXAMINATION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPETITION; ECG ABNORMALITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EXERCISE ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FOOTBALL; GERMANY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART MURMUR; HEART RIGHT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRECOMPETITION MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SPORT; SPORTS MEDICINE; STANDARD; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; CARDIOMYOPATHY, HYPERTROPHIC; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIOVASCULAR; GERMANY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SOCCER;

EID: 68549090755     PISSN: 1050642X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JSM.0b013e3181b21b3f     Document Type: Article

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