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Autopsy-Negative Cardiac Death in Sports and Its Causes

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The article deals with analysis of recent literature sources regarding the frequency and causes of autopsy-negative cardiac death in sports. It has been shown that autopsy-negative death with a structurally normal heart, according to a large number of publications, currently ranks first in sports. The article considers causes such as nonischemic myocardial fibrosis, impaired contractility of the ventricles of the heart, which are based on stressful damage to the myocardium, referred to by several authors as exercise-induced arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy and Phidippides cardiomyopathy.

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Gavrilova, E.A., Churganov, O.A. & Belodedova, M.D. Autopsy-Negative Cardiac Death in Sports and Its Causes. Hum Physiol 47, 232–236 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0362119721010047

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