ith great interest we read the review by Corrado et al. (1) on re-participation screening (PPS) of young competitive athletes to revent sudden cardiac death (SCD). It is important that Corrado et al. (1) briefly mentioned the ossibility of cascade screening of relatives of a competitive athlete ith an inherited heart disease. Unfortunately, this topic is requently neglected in articles on PPS. ...

OBJECTIVES Reliable prevalence data would be useful in assessing the impact of sudden cardiac death in young competitive athletes on the community and designing effective preparticipation screening strategies. BACKGROUND The frequency with which these catastrophes occur is largely unknown. METHODS We utilized a circumstance unique to Minnesota in which the precise number of participants and...

Australian Rules football comprises physical and skilled performance for more than 90 min of play. The cognitive and physiological fatigue experienced by participants during a match may reduce performance. Consequently, the length of time an athlete is on the field before being interchanged (known as a stint), is a key tactic which could maximize the skill and physical output of the Australian ...

The high demands placed on the upper extremity in sporting activities subject the competitive athlete to common injuries of the hand. Treatment options are based on the fracture configuration, associated extremity injuries, and status of the surrounding soft tissue. Metacarpal and phalangeal fractures may usually be treated by closed, nonoperative methods, and most athletes may quickly return t...

IMPORTANCE A report by the Institute of Medicine called for comprehensive nationwide concussion incidence data across the spectrum of athletes aged 5 to 23 years. OBJECTIVE To describe the incidence of concussion in athletes participating in youth, high school, and collegiate American football. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Data were collected by athletic trainers at youth, high school,...

Since myasthenia gravis affects the muscular system, athletes suffering from the disease often have difficulty in performing or returning to their sports activity, in which exertion of continuous muscular power is required. In this paper, we present a case of a professional bicycle rider with symptomatic MG who successfully return to his sport activity after thymectomy, steroid pulse therapy an...

Ventricular arrhythmias are a leading cause of non-elegibility to competitive sport. The failure to detect a significant organic substrate in the initial stage of screening does not preclude the identification of structural pathologies in the follow-up by using advanced imaging techniques. Here we report the case of a senior athlete judged not elegible because an arrhythmia with the morphology ...