Detect, manage, inform: A paradigm shift in the care of athletes with cardiac disorders?

British Journal of Sports Medicine

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 4-5

  Drezner, Jonathan A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEMALE; HUMAN; LONG QT SYNDROME; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; SPORT; SPORTS MEDICINE;

FEMALE; HUMANS; LONG QT SYNDROME; MALE; SPORTS; SPORTS MEDICINE;

EID: 84871187858     PISSN: 03063674     EISSN: 14730480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjsports-2012-091963     Document Type: Editorial

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