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A Multi-Modal Approach to Assessing Recovery in Youth Athletes Following Concussion
Published on: September 25, 2014
Acute cardiac and neurologic decompensation in a high school athlete
Roshan K Vatthyam1, John R Bates, Bruce F Waller
1St Vincent Hospitals and Health Services, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. rosh_04@hotmail.com
Abstract:
A 19-year-old African American man presented to a local emergency room with atrial flutter, dysarthria, and left-sided hemiparesis. He was previously healthy and a successful high school athlete. The patient decompensated and went into cardiac arrest. Two-dimensional echocardiography revealed biventricular dilation, severe systolic dysfunction, and a spongy myocardial appearance. Postmortem examination was diagnostic of biventricular noncompaction. Such a fulminant presentation of isolated ventricular noncompaction in a previously healthy and physically fit individual has not yet been described.
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