European Heart Journal Advance Access originally published online on July 28, 2006
European Heart Journal 2006 27(18):2152-2153; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehl171
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Sudden cardiac death due to hypertrophic cardiomyopathy can be reduced by pre-participation cardiovascular screening in young athletes
1 Sint Maartenskliniek location Sports Medical Centre Papendal, Arnhem, The Netherlands
2 Heart Centre Radboud University Hospital, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
* *Corresponding author. Tel: +31 26 48 34 440; fax: +31 26 36 37 649. E-mail address: nicole.panhuyzen@planet.nl
This editorial refers to ‘Evidence for efficacy of the Italian national pre-participation screening program for identification of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in competitive athletes’
by A. Pelliccia et al., on page 2196
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Sudden death of a young well-trained athlete has a high impact on everyone involved and raises concern in the medical community. It is hardly acceptable that a ‘healthy’ individual dies suddenly during athletic activity. And the question that always arises is whether this athlete could have been identified by pre-participation cardiovascular screening and this sudden cardiac death could have been prevented. The first documented ‘marathon runner’ dying suddenly within an hour after physical exertion while announcing the Greek victory (‘Niké’) over the Persians was Pheidippides in 490 BC. More recently, the death of well-trained athletes has focused interest on pre-participation cardiovascular screening. The European Association for Cardiovascular Prevention and
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