Cardiologists on the ailment of Agüero: "it is not a bad arrhythmia, but is very heavy"

How it affects an ailment like this to a professional sportsman of 33 years? The prognosis is good for a total recovery? The newspaper 'Mark' has put in contact with medical specialists to try give answer to the multiple doubts aroused after the diagnostic of Sergio Agüero on his cardiac arrhythmia, that prejudiced him during the meeting between the FC Barcelona and the Alavés the past Saturday in the Camp Nou.

"Kun Agüero Has been subjected to a diagnostic and therapeutic process by the Dr. Josep Brugada. The effectiveness of the treatment will evaluate to determine the process of his recovery", explained the Barcelona club in a short communiqué that already included the first good news: "The Dr. Brugada is an eminence in this field. In fact there is an arrhythmia that carries his name, that calls the syndrome of Brugada because they discovered it he and his brother", so it is "in some hands inmejorables", explains to MARK the cardiologist of the Hospital of Rosario Carmela Alonso.

By his part, the Argentinian forward resorted to the social networks to appreciate the support: "I Am well and with a lot of spirit to face the process of recovery. I want to appreciate them to all by tantísimos messages of support and of affection that do that my heart was today stronger".

Descarta Grave arrhythmia

The Dr. Ignacio Fernández Lozano, Boss of the Unit of Arrhythmias of the hospital Door of Iron, connoisseur of the team that is treating to Agüero, reviewed the case: "Speaking in generic: they will have done him a physiological study and probably something of treatment for a possible arrhythmia that have. Seeing what has published know that 14 days ago the player already suffered an alike episode. If it had been an arrhythmia ventricular malignant, had not gone back to play on no account, like this understand that it does not have a self-evident cardiopathy. Besides, a professional footballer like him carries an enormous control so much in the Athletic as in the City and the Barcelona. An ecocardiograma to the year, like minimum, as well as proofs of effort and consumption of oxygen. It has lived with a series of checkups of professional sportsman, very expensive. The Dr. Brugada and the doctor Sitges, in the FC Barcelona, will have all the data and will know the evolution, is impossible that have happened at all evident. Even so, in occasions, there is small simple ailments that can not to manifest in the proofs. But being the second episode, will not be a malignant arrhythmia and does not have to be grave from the point of view of the attention cardiológica. If no, it would not have played the other day".

"By the things that have published is possible that have an auricular fibrillation. We do not know that arrhythmia is, but being the second episode, and having been of high to play to the football, does not have to have been an arrhythmia ventricular, "malignant", to understand us. It has to be supraventricular, that did not detect in previous checkups. Possibly they have done him an ablation and inside three months will value him and if it can restart the sportive practice", adds the doctor Fernández Lozano.

"The arrhythmias, like this a bit explained "to walk by house" divide in ventriculares, that are the dangerous, "malignant" and the supraventriculares, that is the one who has to have had Agüero. If it says the note of the Barça that have done him a procedure will be possibly an ablation of an arrhythmia supraventricular, a procedure, generally puncturing veins from the groin, put catéteres in the heart, locate the focus of the arrhythmia and the ablacionamos, that is to say: we destroy it. If it was something unseen would remove with radiofrecuencia or with cold, crioablación", explains the Doctor Fernández Lozano.

Therefore, it treats of a prognosis that in principle would not have why be bad for a professional player: "it has the Kun that withdraw by this? Probablyno , if it is an arrhythmia supraventricular the most likely is that gone back to play. That it have to have a surveillance, but not even a treatment on a long-term basis", sentences the boss of Arrhythmias of the Door of Iron.

According to the opinion of the specialist Fernández Lozano, is a cardiac problem that it is necessary to treat, but that does not seem that it go to revestir greater gravity like others that have been able to see, without going more far the one of Eriksen: "it Is that Eriksen died . It died , but they revived it. They achieved it revive reestablishing the heart rate but if anybody attends him, dies . To the Kun, although they had not attended it, had not happened him at all neither remotamente alike".

"They are not malignant, but go back"

A counterpoint with regard to the optimistic environment on the arrhythmia of Agüero finds in these three months of proofs until knowing how comports his heart. For the doctor Carmela Alonso, cardiologist of the hospital of the Rosary of Madrid, is very important to achieve that they do not repeat . "The term arrhythmia is very generic, there are a lot of types. I imagine me that it was an auricular arrhythmia, benign, of good prognosis. The ventriculares are the bad, and these patients can not go back to play. But with the auricular does not have why give too much problem", explains.

"They are benign, but recurrent, that is to say: they go back. The logical is that to this patient did him an ablation, removed it to him. It calls study electrofisiológico and ablation. It is a definite treatment, but is not 100% of success and, sometimes there is recurrencias. The arrhythmia is good, but is very heavy. It goes to be able to play? Cardiológicamente Could, is not contraindicado, but these sportsmen follow some very strong rhythms of requirement, so I do not know it. It depends a lot of of how comport the arrhythmia. There are people that has an episode and does not go back to have it in seven years. Bad prognosis? No, it does not go to die never of this, but are very heavy. Have a hándicap added that it is that they can form thrombuses. Sometimes the problem is not so much the arrhythmia like the consequences. From here the margin of three months in which they will do him monitorings of the heart to see what such answer and especially if there is recurrencias. If they have achieved ablacionar totally the circuit that caused the arrhythmia, as it would not have to have greater problems", sentences the doctor Carmela Alonso.