Myocarditis in athlete and myocardial bridge: An innocent bystander?

World J Cardiol

Federico Quaranta, Emanuele Guerra, Fabio Sperandii, Francesco De Santis, Fabio Pigozzi, Paolo Borrione, Department of Movement, Human and Health Science, University of Rome "Foro Italico", 00194 Rome, Italy.

Published: May 2015

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.

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