Clinical and Genetic Aspects of Sudden Cardiac Death in Sports Medicine (Colloquium Series on Genomic and Molecular Medicine) by Lynne Millar, Nabeel Sheikh and Sanjay Sharma
English | 2012 | ISBN: 1615043861 | ISBN-13: 9781615043866 | 158 pages | PDF | 29,7 MB
Sudden cardiac death is the leading cause of non-traumatic mortality in young (<35 years old) athletes, with recent data suggesting the incidence to be higher than what was previously estimated. The vast majority of deaths are caused by silent hereditary or congenital cardiac disorders.