What happened last night during the match between Fiorentina and Inter to Viola midfielder Edoardo Bove is still making noisewho collapsed to the ground alone and was taken out of the stadium in an ambulance to be transferred to hospital which, for the moment, has ruled out acute damage to the nervous and cardio-respiratory systems.
Today’s edition of La Gazzetta dello Sportto delve deeper into the story, interviewed the Professor Daniele Andreini, head of the Clinical Cardiology and Sports Cardiology Unit at the Galeazzi Hospital in Milan: “It appears to have been classic cardiac arrest. In 99% of cases it is a heart arrhythmia. He was resuscitated and given cardiac massage. It cannot be ruled out that the heart restarted with the massage and that it was then necessary to use the defibrillator, in the ambulance or in hospital. If there is an underlying trigger, the arrhythmia passes but can then recur.”
How to predict certain situations, they ask him? Andreini replies: “The arrhythmia cannot be seen before. Sometimes, however, the triggering cause can be intercepted. It’s very difficult to diagnose them.” So try to imagine the development of the next few hours: “In the vast majority of cases the tests reveal what the problem was, whether a scar on the heart, an accumulation of fat, an anomalous coronary artery. If everything is negative, they will do an in-depth study of the heart’s activity.”