Cardiac pre-competition screening in Swiss athletes: Current situation in competitive athletes and short follow-up assessment of an exemplary local screening programme

Swiss Medical Weekly

Volumn 142, Issue MAY, 2012, Pages

  Schmied, Christian ^a   Notz, Sara ^a   Cribari, Marco ^a   Gaḧwiler, Roman ^a   Keller, Dagmar I ^a   Lüscher, Thomas F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cardiac screening; Competitive athletes; Sudden cardiac death

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM EXAMINATION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPETITION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCREENING; SPORTING EVENT; SWITZERLAND; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART DISEASE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; STANDARD; SUDDEN DEATH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATHLETES; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84863476543     PISSN: 14247860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4414/smw.2012.13575     Document Type: Article

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