Open AccessMyocarditis in athlete and myocardial bridge: An innocent bystander?
Author(s) -
Federico Quaranta,
Emanuele Guerra,
Fabio Sperandii,
Francesco De Santis,
Fabio Pigozzi,
Leonardo Calò,
Paolo Borrione
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
world journal of cardiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1949-8462
DOI - 10.4330/wjc.v7.i5.293
Subject(s) - medicine , myocarditis , asymptomatic , anamnesis , athletes , cardiology , sudden cardiac death , viral myocarditis , sudden death , disease , restitution , physical therapy , political science , law
Myocarditis is a bacterial or viral inflammatory disease, often unnoticed or misdiagnosed. Athletes with myocarditis must stop practicing their activity since International medical Literature described some cases of sudden death. In the present report, we describe a case of an asymptomatic, apparently healthy, competitive athletes, who was diagnosed a myocarditis and as incidental finding a myocardial bridging. We focused the attention on the importance of anamnesis, electrocardiogram and athletes' entourage for the diagnosis of such insidious pathologies and we evaluated the follow up, focusing the attention on electrocardiogram changes as well as on restitution ad integrum and prognosis, especially for the athletes.