[Myocardial infarction while windsurfing (author's transl)].

A 40-year-old joiner collapsed while windsurfing. After hospitalization the ECG showed a posterior wall infarction (stage 1) of which the patient shortly died. Autopsy revealed a fresh and a rather older posterior wall infarction, otherwise the coronary artery system was unremarkable. From indirect anamnesis a Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome with paroxysmal tachycardias and collapses could be established. The non-traumatic causes of death in sport generally and the problems of WPW syndrome, paroxysmal tachycardia, collapse and sport in particular are dealt with in more detail. Possible causes for infarction with unremarkable coronary artery system are briefly presented. Finally a connection between reinfarction and windsurfing is discussed.