Table 1.

Common cardiovascular diseases associated with sudden cardiac deaths in athletes (adapted from[15,21])

Type of pathology	Pathology
Cardiomyopathies	HCM
	DCM
	LVNC
	ARVC
CAD
Myocarditis
Congenital defects	AOCA
	BAV
Valvulopathies	MVP
Aortic diseases	Aortic dissection
	Aortic rupture
	Aortic aneurism
Kawasaki disease
Idiopathic scarring
Conduction defects	WPW
Channelopathies	LQTs
	Brugada syndrome
	CPVT

HCM: Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy; DCM: Dilated cardiomyopathy; LVNC: Left ventricle non compaction; ARVC: Arrhythmogenic right ventricle cardiomyopathy; CAD: Coronary artery disease; AOCA: Anomalous origin of coronary arteries; BAV: Bicuspid aortic valve; MVP: Mitral valve prolapse; WPW: Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome; LQTs: Long QT syndrome; CPVT: Catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia.