4 Topic Commentaries

Inside the Baseball Athlete's Heart

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  Hugh Calkins, MD

  Cardiac Electrophysiology

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  Johns Hopkins Medicine

  If something hits your chest at a high speed at exactly the wrong time, that can induce VF.

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  James L. Januzzi, MD

  Cardiology

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  Harvard Medical School; Massachusetts General Hospital

  Teams are very focused on detecting unrecognized structural heart disease that might put a player at risk for sudden cardiac arrest,

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  Jeffrey Winterfield, MD

  Cardiac Electrophysiology

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  Medical University of South Carolina

  This is something that happens maybe 20 times a year, usually in catchers in baseball and in lacrosse.

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  Kathleen Ryan, MD

  Pediatric Cardiology

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  Stanford School of Medicine; Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford

  Commotio cordis causes victims to go into ventricular fibrillation. CPR is not enough because the heart is quivering about 400 to 1,200 times a minute,

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