14th International Congress
THE "NEW FRONTIERS"
OF ARRHYTHMIAS 2000

Jan. 29 - Feb. 5, 2000
Marilleva, Trento, Italy

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Arrhythmias in athletes

Paolo Manetti, Maria Concetta Vono, Brunello Cappelli, Paola Zilli, Loira Toncelli, Carlo Rostagno, Giorgio Galanti.
Istituto di Clinica Medica Generale e Cardiologia, Centro Regionale di Riferimento di Medicina dello Sport, University of Florence, Italy

Arrhythmias can represent an early sign of cardiovascular disease, but they can be detected even in healthy subjects as well. The finding of arrhythmias in athletes often needs more cardiovascular testing because it is well known that exercise may trigger off dangerous arrhythmias in subjects with cardiovascular disease.

Aim of the study was to evaluate cardiac rhythm disturbance in athletes in order to evaluate the relation with symptoms and determining the exercise correlated risk.