By Dave Siebert, MD, @DaveMSiebert When medical students learn about hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), one fact often resonates as a shocking and tragic reality: it frequently first presents as sudden death. Yet HCM is just one of a heterogeneous list of pathologic structural and electrical cardiac disorders that can cause sudden death in athletes without prior warning. […]
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Sudden death in sport – still not sorted
Just a quick post getting back into the year – highlighting that the issue of managing cardiac risk factors in sports is not easy. I was reading about various deaths in athletes when I came across this older, but interesting post. Remember also the September 2009 BJSM which dealt specifically with cardiac issues in the […]