منابع مشابه
Causes of Sudden Cardiac Death
Recent findings The primary purpose of the preparticipation examination is to detect the cardiovascular disorders known to cause sudden cardiac arrest in the athlete. Studies demonstrate that the traditional history and physicalbased examination has a limited sensitivity, does not detect the majority of athletes with at-risk conditions, and may provide false reassurance for athletes with disord...
متن کاملCauses of sudden death in competitive athletes.
Cardiovascular diseases responsible for sudden unexpected death in highly conditioned athletes are largely related to the age of the patient. In most young competitive athletes (less than 35 years of age) sudden death is due to congenital cardiovascular disease. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy appears to be the most common cause of such deaths, accounting for about half of the sudden deaths in youn...
متن کاملWhat causes sudden death in heart failure?
Patients with heart failure experience a number of changes in the electrical function of the heart that predispose to potentially lethal cardiac arrhythmias. Action potential prolongation, the result of functional downregulation of K currents, and aberrant Ca2+ handling is a recurrent theme. Significant alterations in conduction and activation of a number of initially adaptive but ultimately ma...
متن کاملSudden death: Neurogenic causes, prediction and prevention
Sudden death is a major health problem all over the world. The most common causes of sudden death are cardiac but there are also other causes such as neurological conditions (stroke, epileptic attacks and brain trauma), drugs, catecholamine toxicity, etc. A common feature of all these diverse pathologies underlying sudden death is the imbalance of the autonomic nervous system control of the car...
متن کاملSudden adult death syndrome and other non-ischaemic causes of sudden cardiac death.
OBJECTIVE To evaluate non-atherosclerotic cardiac deaths in the UK population aged over 15 years including elderly patients and to highlight the concept of the structurally normal heart in sudden death. METHODS Pathological data were collected prospectively for sudden adult deaths referred by UK coroners. RESULTS 453 cases of sudden death from 1994 to 2003 (278 men (61.4%) and 175 women (38...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Postgraduate Medical Journal
سال: 1937
ISSN: 0032-5473
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.13.135.16