Phidipiddes cardiomyopathy
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2014-05
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Титова, Ганна Юріївна
Almansoor, Abdulakarim
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Abstract
Repetitive, sustained elevations of cardiac output for several hours, in
predisposed individuals, causes recurrent dilation of cardiac chambers and stimulates
resident macrophages, pericytes, and fibroblasts,resulting in the deposition of collagen
causing patchy fibrosis. The fibrotic areas, in turn, become the substrate for re-entrant ventricular tachycardia and degeneration to ventricular fibrillation. In the absence of areadily identifiable cardiac abnormality (eg, acute myocardial infarction, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy), Phidippides cardiomyopathy is a likely cause of sudden death in athletes, such as marathon runners
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hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, sudden death, Phidippides cardiomyopathy
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Almansoor Abdulakarim. Phidipiddes cardiomyopathy / Almansoor Abdulakarim, G. Titova // 7th International Scientific Interdisciplinary Conference for medical students and young scientists, Kharkiv, May 15–16, 2014 : abstract book / Kharkiv National Medical University. – Kharkiv, 2014. – Р. 66.