1. Congenital and Acquired Anomalies of Coronary Arteries
- Author
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Salvatore Francesco Gervasi, Paolo Zeppilli, and Vincenzo Palmieri
- Subjects
congenital, hereditary, and neonatal diseases and abnormalities ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Myocardial ischemia ,biology ,Athletes ,business.industry ,Disease ,biology.organism_classification ,medicine.disease ,Sudden cardiac death ,Coronary arteries ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,hemic and lymphatic diseases ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,Cardiology ,cardiovascular diseases ,business ,Sinus (anatomy) ,Coronary atherosclerosis ,Artery - Abstract
Congenital and acquired diseases of coronary arteries are frequent causes of sudden cardiac death (SCD) in recreational and competitive sportsmen. Coronary atherosclerosis is responsible for the vast majority of SCD in middle-aged and older athletes, while the anomalous origin of a coronary artery from the “wrong” sinus of Valsalva is one of the most frequent causes in the younger ones. Regardless of the type of disease and mechanisms involved, SCD is usually the result of exercise-induced myocardial ischemia.
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- 2021