Routine screening of young athletes for aneurysm: PRO.
Young athletes with unknown moderate enlargement of the ascending aorta are prone to aortic dissection during exertion. This dissection is linked to transient, severe hypertension during intense athletic effort. Promising young athletes are dying from this phenomenon. For this reason, the author suggests routine echocardiographic examination of young athletes.
Elefteriades
John A
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Section of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, Yale-New Haven Hospital, PO Box 208039, New Haven, CT 06520-8039, USA. john.elefteriades@yale.edu
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D017542:Aneurysm, Ruptured / Q000175:diagnosis*; D017545:Aortic Aneurysm, Thoracic / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004452:Echocardiography; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D005538:Football; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000379:methods*; D008875:Middle Aged; D012422:Rupture, Spontaneous; D055815:Young Adult