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Inter's Rivas has heart condition
Friday 28 September, 2007
Inter defender Nelson Rivas has been diagnosed with a heart condition and could be out for at least a month while it is investigated further.
The Colombian collapsed unconscious during a training session last week and was kept off the field as a precautionary measure.
Today Inter confirmed tests highlighted a cardiac arrhythmia, but club doctor Professor Franco Combi played down reports it could be career-threatening.
"The tests still need to be completed, but I think it was quite simply a fairly significant dystonia. A dystonia like for example what can happen to soldiers on parade. I think it's this. But as I just said, let's finish off the tests first,” commented Combi.
"Recovery time will be decided by the competent authorities, as foreseen by Italian law. It will then be a progressive recovery because he has been out for a while."
The Italian laws on players with heart problems are extremely strict and there is the possibility that the authorities will not allow Rivas to continue as an athlete in the country.
It is not new to Inter, who already in the past had Nwankwo Kanu and Khalilou Fadiga’s time at the club cut short by heart problems that had not been discovered before their transfers.
“For me, it's lypothymia, and lypothymia means just a blackout. We have completed the neurological tests now, and they're fine. We just need to finish off the small tests,” assured Combi.
“I have only said that it's nothing serious. The diagnosis is not what was said on television. There's no serious pathology and there's nothing to worry about. We have to complete the tests now.
“There's no big risk for the player but it's right to complete the tests and do them calmly without putting too much pressure on him, because he was the first person to be worried, and he's much, much calmer now."
In the wake of the tragic death of Sevilla star Antonio Puerta from a heart condition, football clubs are going to be extra careful when sudden blackouts like this occur.
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