title: Myocarditis in athlete and myocardial bridge: An innocent bystander?
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: 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.
authors.forename: Federico
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Quaranta
authors.affiliation: 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.
authors.forename: Emanuele
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Guerra
authors.affiliation: 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.
authors.forename: Fabio
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Sperandii
authors.affiliation: 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.
authors.forename: Francesco
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: De Santis
authors.affiliation: 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.
authors.forename: Fabio
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Pigozzi
authors.affiliation: 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.
authors.forename: Leonardo
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Calò
authors.affiliation: 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.
authors.forename: Paolo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Borrione
keywords: Myocarditis; Pre-participation screening; Sudden cardiac death