Sudden cardiac arrest in a healthy young athlete

Young athlete with sudden cardiac arrest treated with therapeutic hypothermia.

Reported herein is a coronary anomaly that occurred in a young adolescent athlete who presented with cardiopulmonary arrest. The patient was resuscitated and treated with therapeutic hypothermia. The patient had no associated neurological complications at follow up. Enhanced computed tomography of the heart indicated an anomalous left main coronary artery originating from the right coronary sin...

Sudden cardiac arrest in the young - a call to action.

640 August 2012, Vol. 102, No. 8 SAMJ Sudden cardiac arrest in the young – a call to action To the Editor: Sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) in athletes has once again been brought into the spotlight as a result of the recent widely publicised collapse and resuscitation of Fabrice Muambo during a FA Cup soccer match in the United Kingdom. The efforts of the trained medical responders in his successfu...

Sudden Cardiac Death Sudden Cardiac Death in the Athlete

Sudden cardiac death (SCD) in a young athlete commonly brings to the forefront the many gaps in knowledge regarding how to predict and prevent these rare tragic events.1–3 Although the number of athletic sudden deaths is relatively small, with 100 to 150 competitive deaths during sports in the United States annually, they represent an important and emotionally charged public health issue, perha...

Modeling the Incidence of Sudden Cardiac Arrest in Healthy Children

There have been many technical and pharmacological advances in the prophylaxis of cardiac arrest in recent decades. In adult patient populations, these advances have been complemented by many methodologically rigorous studies defining the risks of sudden cardiac arrest in targeted and epidemiologically well-defined study groups, most of which have identified cardiomyopathy (ischemic, dilated, n...

Sudden Cardiac Arrest