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Helder Dores, Lígia Mendes, António Ferreira, Jose Ferreira Santos
Helder Dores, Lígia Mendes, António Ferreira, Jose Ferreira Santos
DOI: 10.5935/abc.20170075
Case Report We describe the case of a 17-year-old caucasian male tennis player, training a mean of 20-24h/week, refereed for evaluation in Sport’s Cardiology clinic due to symptoms of dizziness on strenuous exercise, relieving soon after decubitus. The athlete denied other concomitant complaints, namely thoracic pain, palpitations, syncope or decrease in physical performance. Although this is the most symptomatic episode, he revealed other prior episodes with similar presentation, but less intense and occurring in environments with high temperatures. Personal/family history […]
Keywords: Athletes; Echocardiography, Stress; Exercise Test/adverse effects; Heart Ventricles/physiopathology; Ventricular Dysfunction/etiology