Sudden Death in Young Athletes
Authors: THOMAS N. JAMES
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1967)

Case Studies1 November 1967Sudden Death in Young AthletesTHOMAS N. JAMES, M.D., F.A.C.P., PETER FROGGATT, M.D., THOMAS K. MARSHALL, M.D., M.C. PATH.THOMAS N. JAMES, M.D., F.A.C.P., PETER FROGGATT, M.D., THOMAS K. MARSHALL, M.D., M.C. PATH.Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-67-5-1013 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptSudden unexpected death of a young athlete is not an unfamiliar event, but as part of the uniquely poignant tragedy it represents there are often few medical facts to report. In such deaths there is a limited number of possible mechanisms, of which a sudden cardiac arrhythmia is one. For this reason we have recently studied the hearts of two young athletes who died suddenly although previously considered to be in good health and in whom the routine necropsy provided no explanation. 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PATH.Affiliations: Detroit, Michigan, and Belfast,From the Section on Cardiovascular Research, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Mich., and the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine and Institute of Pathology of the Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland.This study was supported in part by a grant from the Michigan Heart Association, Detroit, Mich., and by grants H-5197 and H-7108, National Heart Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md.This paper was presented in part at the 48th Annual Session of the American College of Physicians, San Francisco, Calif., April 13, 1967.Requests for reprints should be addressed to Thomas N. James, M.D., Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Mich. 48202. 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