Arrhythmias and Sudden Death in Athletes

by Bayes De Luna, Antonio; Furlanello, F.; Maron, Barry J.; Zipes, Douglas P.

• ISBN13: 9780792363378
• ISBN10: 079236337X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-09-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

With a Foreword by Juan Antonio Samaranch. Over the past several years, news media reports on sudden death in young, trained athletes have raised concern in both the medical community and the lay public. Although these events are tragic, they nevertheless bear little relation to the vast numbers of young athletes participating safely in a wide variety of sporting activities. However, the increasing interest and concern have also been instrumental in increased awareness and important research on this subject. Arrhythmias and Sudden Death in Athletes covers much of this scientific research. It describes the scope of the problem, provides classifications, suggests treatments and offers guidelines, all from both the American and the European points of view. This book will be most useful for sports medicine physicians, cardiologists, paediatricians and geriatricians as well as other health care personnel working in the field of sports medicine, and even coaches of sportsmen who may be exposed to sudden death. It will assist them in determining when an athlete is at risk for severe cardiovascular disease, or even sudden death and what should be done for the prevention of this sort of heart complication.

Table of Contents

Scope of the problem of sudden death in athletes: Definitions, epidemiology and socioconomic implications	1	(10)
B.J. Maron
The Italian classification of different sports in relation to cardiovascular risk	11	(14)
A. Dal Monte
Classification of sports	25	(6)
J.H. Mitchell
W.L. Haskell
P.B. Raven
Cardiovascular causes and pathology of sudden death in athletes: The American experience	31	(18)
B.J. Maron
Pathology of sudden death in young athletes: The European experience	49	(22)
G. Thiene
C. Basso
D. Corrado
Markers and triggers of sudden death in athletes	71	(18)
M.T. Subirana
R. Elosua
X. Vinolas
P. Ferres
T. Bayes-Genis
J. Guindo
T. Martinez-Rubio
A. Bayes de Luna
Competitive athletes with arrhythmias: Classification, evaluation and treatment	89	(18)
F. Furlanello
A. Bertoldi
F. Fernando
A. Biffi
Arrhythmias in special situations	107	(12)
P. Ferres
F. Drago
A. Biffi
R. Elosua
M.T. Subirana
A. Aguilar
F. Sardella
A. Dal Monte
A. Bayes de Luna
Guidelines for competitive athletes with arrhythmias	119	(34)
T. Al-Sheikh
D.P. Zipes
Italian guidelines for competitive athletes with arrhythmias	153	(8)
A. Biffi
F. Furlanello
G. Caselli
A. Bertoldi
F. Fernando
Index	161