Christian Eriksen was already at the gates of the afterlife, ventricular fibrillation the antechamber of death – says the professor Gaetano Thiene, expert in sudden cardiac death in athletes -. And instead the miracle this time happened, they saved his life, his was a sudden death with an abortion. it was a great success. happened yesterday in the 43rd minute of the first half of Denmark-Finland, at the Copenhagen stadium. Here is the paradox – says Professor Thiene -. There had already been over 40 minutes of play, but this is not a problem for an athlete. The heart capable of enormous sports performance, great mechanical performance, but electrical stability is another story, in Eriksen’s heart there was a short circuit.
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the 43 ‘minute. Eriksen approaches the side foul line to receive the ball from a teammate, but suddenly begins to stagger, a few steps and falls. Fortunately, the teammates, the referee, the opponents immediately notice the drama. And relief efforts are triggered. For this I say that they should be rewarded. Everyone! Professor Thiene gets excited, who performed the appraisal on Davide Astori, the Fiorentina defender who died on March 4, 2018 and that his Antonio Puerta, the Sevilla midfielder suffered a cardiac arrest on the pitch on 25 August 2007.
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Everyone should be rewarded up in Copenhagen, according to the professor. From teammate (captain Kjaer, ed) who had the readiness to move his tongue to reopen the upper airways. To the doctors who gave him heart massage for several minutes so that his heart could pump. And then to those who used the defibrillator. The defibrillator was a great invention, a lifesaver. If they used it it means that a ventricular fibrillation was in progress, the boy lost consciousness, it could not be a trivial hot or cold syncope, if it were so he would soon get up.
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What happened to Eriksen
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Thanks to the shock, the schiccheraInstead, as another luminary of cardiology, Bruno Marino, a pupil of Professor Thiene, familiarly calls it, the defibrillator has brought the heart back to its natural sinus rhythm. A quick, right maneuver. Now all the necessary investigations will be made, but it is clear that Eriksen had an arrhythmia that led to the collapse, says Bruno Marino, of the Policlinico Umberto I in Rome. And he adds: Now the challenge will be to understand the precise reasons, because there are no more mysteries about sudden deaths thanks to studies.
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There is certainly an underlying disease – says Thiene, professor emeritus in Padua -. And unfortunately these pathologies can escape even the most stringent controls such as those of sports doctors. What he brought to the death of Davide Astori and the Livorno midfielder, Piermario Morosini, who passed away on April 14, 2012, causes more than a quarter of cardiac arrests – explains Thiene – and arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy of the right ventricle. Then there is hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, the pathology – Professor Bruno Marino remembers – which cost the life of the Perugia footballer, Renato Curi, who died on October 30, 1977. But now an echocardiograph is enough to find it. The most insidious, the most occult, not very symptomatic of all, instead the coronary anomaly, the anomalous origin of a coronary artery and in fact – concludes Professor Thiene – I am convinced that now they will do Christian Eriksen, if they do not have it. already done, a coronary angiography. Will I be able to play again? Difficult question, events like this do not happen by chance. But it doesn’t matter, we won, the boy alive.
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