Sudden cardiac death athletes: a systematic review

Sports Medicine, Arthroscopy, Rehabilitation, Therapy and Technology

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Ferreira, Marcelo ^a   Santos Silva, Paulo R ^a   de Abreu, Luiz C ^a   Valenti, Vitor E ^a,b   Crispim, Vanessa ^a   Imaizumi, Caio ^a   Filho, Celso F ^a   Murad, Neif ^a   Meneghini, Adriano ^a   Riera, Andrés R P ^a   de Carvalho, Tatiana D ^b   Vanderlei, Luiz C M ^c   Valenti, Erica E ^d   Cisternas, José R ^a   Moura Filho, Oseas F ^a   Ferreira, Celso ^a,b  

^a FACULDADE DE MEDICINA DO ABC   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO CARLOS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ATHLETE; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART DEATH; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; REVIEW; SPORT INJURY; SUDDEN DEATH; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

EID: 84856093328     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582555     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1758-2555-2-19     Document Type: Review

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