Assuntos
Calcinose/patologia , Granuloma de Células Plasmáticas/patologia , Pericardite Constritiva/patologia , Estenose da Valva Pulmonar/patologia , Estenose da Valva Tricúspide/patologia , Idoso , Calcinose/complicações , Calcinose/diagnóstico por imagem , Técnicas de Imagem Cardíaca , Granuloma de Células Plasmáticas/complicações , Granuloma de Células Plasmáticas/diagnóstico por imagem , Humanos , Imageamento por Ressonância Magnética , Masculino , Mediastino/diagnóstico por imagem , Mediastino/patologia , Pericardite Constritiva/complicações , Pericardite Constritiva/diagnóstico por imagem , Pericárdio/diagnóstico por imagem , Pericárdio/patologia , Estenose da Valva Pulmonar/diagnóstico por imagem , Estenose da Valva Pulmonar/etiologia , Tomografia Computadorizada por Raios X , Estenose da Valva Tricúspide/diagnóstico por imagem , Estenose da Valva Tricúspide/etiologiaRESUMO
In many sports, regular cardiac screening for exercise-associated sudden cardiac death is still not provided. To set up the current situation in top-skilled handball players qualified for the 2010 European Handball Championship in Austria, a standardised questionnaire was sent to every team. The fact that only 42.7% of the players returned the questionnaire may lead to the conclusion that the awareness of the problem is quite low. However, 82% of these players have been screened according to current recommendations. Half of the teams were screened inhomogeneously: 5 players (4.1%) have not been screened within the last years, 1 athlete (0.8%) was screened without an ECG. While 69% of the athletes got their first screening only after the age of 18, 16 players (13.1%) never went through a specific screening ever. We identified 17 athletes (13.9%) with a highly suspicious history, 2 of them (1.6%) never underwent a medical screening at all.