Comparatively little is known about the risk of sudden death associated with exercise in young competitive athletes, and whether the benefits of sports activity outweigh the hazards of exercise-related fatal events is a clinical dilemma. This is only a small part of the story, however, as there are considerable effects of exercise whether it be at a competitive level or on a ‘leisure’ level on patients of all ages. This in itself is of massive importance to the cardiac patient population as exercise is a key component of effective recovery and recommended as central in the prevention of much cardiac disease.
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A 27-Year-Old Professional Cyclist with Palpitations on Effort.- Impaired Performance in a Master Long-Distance Runner.- A 26-Year-Old Cyclist with Syncope on Effort.- A 32-Year-Old Female Soccer Player with Unexplained Syncope.- A 23-Year-Old Top-Level Soccer Player Suffering Syncope on Effort.- A 21-Year-Old Female Beach Volleyball Player with Palpitations and Pre-syncope on Effort.- A 49-Year-Old Male Marathon Runner with Exercise Induced Prolonged Palpitations.- A Female Cyclist with Prolonged Palpitations on Effort.- The Girl with Systolic Murmur on the Left Sternal Border.- Elite Tennis Player with a Complete Atrio-Ventricular Block.- A Young Canoeist with an Abnormal Electrocardiogram.- ECG Repolarization Abnormalities in an African Descent Athlete: Pathologic or Physiologic Finding?.- A 16-Year-Old Female Runner with Prolonged QT Interval.- Athlete with Variable QTc Interval and Abnormal T Wave Pattern.- Young Triathlete with Unusual ST-Segment Elevation in Precordial Leads.- A 17-Year-Old Competitive Soccer Player with Pre-excitation Pattern on 12-Lead ECG.- A Symptomatic Judoka with Wolff-Parkinson-White Pattern.- A 35-Year-Old Competitive Cyclist with Frequent Premature Ventricular Beats.- An Athlete with Ischemic Pattern on Exercise ECG.- A 17-Year-Old National Cyclist with Exercise-Induced Ventricular Tachycardia.- A 53-Year-Old Recreational Jogger with Atrial Fibrillation.- Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation in a Professional Cyclist.- A Female Soccer Player with Unusual Fatigability and Ventricular Arrhythmia.- A 38-Year-Old Marathon Runner with Tricuspid Valve Regurgitation.- A Young Rower with an Unusual Left Ventricular Hypertrophy.- An Elite Athlete with Controversial Left Ventricular Hypertrophy.- A Non-compaction Cardiomyopathy or Innocent LV Trabeculation?.- A 31-Year-Old Male, Recreational Soccer Player with “Low Risk” Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy.- Competitive Cyclist Suffering from Myocardial Infarction, Willing to Resume Competitive Sport.- A 32 Year-Old Male Soccer Player with Chest Trauma.- Asymptomatic Cyclist with Stenosis of Left Main Coronary Artery.