Sudden death after myocardial infarction in a high-school athlete.
This is an unusual case of ischemic heart disease occurring in a young female athlete, aged 14 years, in whom almost the entire posterior wall of the left ventricle was affected. The patient collapsed and died suddenly after a vigorous physical activity while resting at home. The ischemic lesion was apparently owing to right orifice stenosis in association with a small hypoplastic right coronary artery.
Sivridis
Efthimios
E
Department of Pathology, Democritus University of Thrace, Medical School, Alexandroupolis, Greece.
Pavlidis
Pavlos
P
Stamos
Charilaos
C
Giatromanolaki
Alexandra
A
D000293:Adolescent; D056352:Athletes; D003330:Coronary Vessel Anomalies / Q000473:pathology*; D003645:Death, Sudden / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D005355:Fibrosis; D049429:Forensic Pathology; D006346:Heart Septum / Q000473:pathology; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000473:pathology; D006470:Hemorrhage / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000473:pathology; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000473:pathology*; D009206:Myocardium / Q000473:pathology; D010210:Papillary Muscles / Q000473:pathology; D011654:Pulmonary Edema / Q000473:pathology