Rare Cause of Syncope in Young Athletes

This chapter reports about a rare cause of syncope in young athletes. Syncope is a common event in which there is a transient loss of consciousness and postural tone. Although syncope is generally a benign event in young adults (less than 35 years of age) and, in many cases, never reaches the attention of a physician, exercise-related syncope can signal sudden death. This disease causes parasympathetic failure resulting in cardiac failure, arrhythmogenic, cardiomyopathy, sudden death, mega esophagus and mega colon. A 36-year-old lady emigrated from Mexico to America when she was 15 years old and currently resides in Australia. She is an intensive care nurse, married from a pilot and has a boy and a girl aged 12 and 15 years old. The disease could be reactivated in immunosuppressed patients. Infection and chronicity of the diseases is mainly CD4 mediated and colonel populate CD8. Reactivation in immunocompromised patient is not uncommon, and can present with cardiac syncope.