Abstract
Supraventricular arrhythmias (SA) affect a large number of subjects. They are generally considered to be benign and are still largely treated by anti arrhythmic drugs. In rare cases and by certain specific mechanisms not only in Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome (W-P-W), SA may cause sudden cardiac death [1]. Atrial fibrillation is certainly the most common arrhythmia in clinical practice, its prevalence being about 0.2–9% in the adult population, depending on age [2]. However, to date not much is known about the electrophysiologic mechanism of atrial fibrillation, with consequent objective difficulties in defining the vulnerable parameters.
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Biffi, A., Piovano, G., Verdile, L., Fernando, F. (1997). Prognostic Evaluation of Supraventricular Arrhythmias in Athletes. In: Pelliccia, A., Caselli, G., Bellotti, P. (eds) Advances in Sports Cardiology. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2298-0_7
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