Sudden Cardiac ArrestAthletesSurvival RatesIn recent research, Drs. Jonathan Drezner and Kenneth Rogers studied the incidence of sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) in young athletes in intercollegiate sports. Interestingly, they found that early defibrillation and resuscitation efforts had little effect on the ...
Dr. Temple said sudden cardiac arrest in young athletes is usually caused by an undiagnosed congenital heart defect and not an injury. "Anyone that's had an arrest, there is a reasonably possibility that they've something that led to this which may alter their life course somewhat," Dr. Te...
Sudden cardiac death in athletes is usually due to underlying cardiovascular disease. In the young less than 30 years of age, the most common abnormality is hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, followed by congenital coronary artery anomalies. The final common pathway is usually ventricular fibrillation. Sudden...
- A teen athlete suffered a sudden cardiac arrest during a soccer match last summer, and now, she and her family are using that terrifying moment to educate others and raise awareness.According to the Mayo Clinic, sudden cardiac arrest is the leading cause of death in young athletes.13...
New biosciences research at the University of Kent could point the way to greater understanding of the heart mutations that cause sudden cardiac arrest. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is agenetic conditionthat one in 500 people carry and is a leading cause of sudden cardiac arrest inyoung athletes. The...
Nonetheless, sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) is the leading cause of death in young athletes and may be preventable in many cases. However, current screening methods in the USA are inadequate to identify those at risk with sufficient sensitivity or specificity, or in a practical or cost-effective ...
Sudden cardiac death refers to cardiac arrest that occurs without clinical warning. The etiology is usually arrhythmia. The most common cause of sudden cardiac death in young athletes is hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy, which accounts for approximately one-third of cases. The second leading ...
Nonetheless, sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) is the leading cause of death in young athletes and may be preventable in many cases. However, current screening methods in the USA are inadequate to identify those at risk with sufficient sensitivity or specificity, or in a practical or cost-effective ...
Causes of sudden cardiac arrest in young athletes. Knowledge of sudden cardiac death in young athletes is imperative for all physicians and allied health professionals. The complete differential diagnosis o... MS Westrol,R Kapitanyan,A Marques-Baptista,... - 《Postgraduate Medicine》 被引量: 132...
This same study estimated the incidence of non-athletes to be 0.7/100′000 person-years [15] (Table 4). To our knowledge, data on the incidence of SCD among the young in Switzerland has never been published, nor for other populations of central Europe. As a result, we cannot compare ...