Pruebas genéticas para prevención de muerte súbita en deportistas

Abstract

Currently, sudden cardiac death causes a great impact on the entire population, especially in cases where athletes are involved with a fatal outcome; Therefore, it is necessary to search for methods that allow timely diagnosis and prevention of this tragic event through the use of cardiac genetic tests. OBJECTIVE: Identify cardiac genetic tests, through the systematic review of scientific articles published in indexed journals for the prevention of sudden death in athletes. METHODOLOGY: Descriptive, documentary study, through bibliographic review in scientific databases, PubMed, Scielo, Google Scholar; in relation to genetic tests for prevention of sudden death in athletes. CONCLUSION: Sudden cardiac death in athletes causes alarm not only to those who belong to this group, but to society; The genetic test used is Next Generation Sequencing that uses fragments of deoxyribonucleic acid, allowing the rapid analysis of large sections of DNA that are very useful for clinical practice in diagnoses using methods such as the exome and the complete genome, comparing with the 49 relevant genes. for sudden cardiac death that exist; providing solid results in the shortest possible time.