Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia in an Elite Female Soccer Player; What Sports Medicine Clinicians Should Know about This?

Hooman Angoorani; Zohreh Haratian; Farzin Halabchi

doi:10.5812/asjsm.34694

Asian Journal of Sports Medicine

Sports Medicine Research Center, TUMS

e-ISSN 2008-7209

p-ISSN 2008-000X

Cover image of the article: Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia in an Elite Female Soccer Player; What Sports Medicine Clinicians Should Know about This?

Image Credit:Asian J Sports Med

Outline

Abstract
Copyright

https://doi.org/10.5812/asjsm.34694

Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia in an Elite Female Soccer Player; What Sports Medicine Clinicians Should Know about This?

Authors

Hooman Angoorani², Zohreh Haratian², Farzin Halabchi

^2,*

2Department of Sports and Exercise Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

*Corresponding Author: Sports Medicine Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, No 7, Al-e-Ahmad Higway, Tehran, Iran., fhalabchi@tums.ac.ir. Email: fhalabchi@tums.ac.ir

Asian Journal of Sports Medicine:Vol. 3, issue 3; 209-213

Published online:Aug 31, 2012

Article type:Case Report

Received:Feb 15, 2012

Accepted:Jun 10, 2012

How to Cite:Angoorani H, Haratian Z, Halabchi F. Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia in an Elite Female Soccer Player; What Sports Medicine Clinicians Should Know about This?. Asian J Sports Med. 2012;3(3):34694. doi: https://doi.org/10.5812/asjsm.34694

Abstract

Background:

Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia (CAH) refers to a group of congenital conditions characterized by disordered cortisol synthesis. The correlation between CAH and sports performance has been less studied before and there is very limited information regarding the impacts of this congenital disease on sports performance. Probably, there are some limitations for patients who suffer from CAH in sports, but at the same time, they may enjoy some advantage due to the probable effect of endogenous hyperandrogenism on their exercise performance.

Case Presentation:

The case is a 14 - year old girl with male phenotype who is a known case of congenital adrenal hyperplasia. She plays in the women's national soccer team of under 16. She has been in the first division league of indoor soccer for 4 years and was also selected in the preparation training camp of women's football team for Singapore's youth Olympic Games. Her illness and dependence on corticosteroid have caused some concerns for her participation in the international competitions of women. However, following consultations with the Therapeutic Use Exemption (TUE) Committee of games organization, she received TUE to use corticosteroid only within the games period. Despite all her problems, she is now playing in the Second Division League of indoor soccer.

Conclusions:

A female adolescent with CAH may compete at the high level of outdoor and indoor soccer. However, there are many questions regarding the advantages and disadvantages of this congenital disorder and its treatment on sports related issues.

Highlights

KeywordsCongenital Adrenal Hyperplasia Doping Gender Identity Sports Soccer Therapeutic Use Exemption

Full Text

Full text is available in PDF

Copyright

© 2012, Author(s). This open-access article is available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which allows for unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided that the original work is properly cited.

Similar Articles

Oct

2012

Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia: Experience in Iranian Patients

Maryam Razzaghy Azar,

Mona Nourbakhsh,

Mitra Nourbakhsh

PDF

Razzaghy Azar M, Nourbakhsh M, Nourbakhsh M. Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia: Experience in Iranian Patients. J Compr Ped. 2012;4(1):. doi: https://doi.org/10.17795/compreped-5244

Nov

2022

Medical Treatment in Men with Infertility Can Be Misinterpreted as Doping Practice: A Case of Unintentional World Anti-doping Agency (WADA) Code Violation

Tohid Seif Barghi,

Mohammad Mahdi Tavana,

Erfan Amini

PDF

Seif Barghi T, Tavana MM, Amini E. Medical Treatment in Men with Infertility Can Be Misinterpreted as Doping Practice: A Case of Unintentional World Anti-doping Agency (WADA) Code Violation. Asian J Sports Med. 2022;13(4):e121004. doi: https://doi.org/10.5812/asjsm-121004

Jul

2017

Gender Identity in Patients with Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia

Maryam Razzaghy-Azar,

Sakineh Karimi,

Elham Shirazi

PDF

Razzaghy-Azar M, Karimi S, Shirazi E. Gender Identity in Patients with Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia. Int J Endocrinol Metab. 2017;15(3):e12537. doi: https://doi.org/10.5812/ijem.12537

Jul

2019

Polycystic Ovary Syndrome in Adolescents: Challenges in Diagnosis and Treatment

Fahimeh Ramezani Tehrani,

Mina Amiri

PDF

Ramezani Tehrani F, Amiri M. Polycystic Ovary Syndrome in Adolescents: Challenges in Diagnosis and Treatment. Int J Endocrinol Metab. 2019;17(3):e91554. doi: https://doi.org/10.5812/ijem.91554

Jul

2011

The Relationship between Clinical and Chemical Hyperandrogenism in 14-18-Years- Old Girls

marzieh akbarzadeh,

Tahereh Naderi,

Mohammad Hossain Dabbaghmanesh,

Hamidreza Tabatabaee,

Zahra Zareh

PDF

akbarzadeh M, Naderi T, Dabbaghmanesh MH, Tabatabaee H, Zareh Z. The Relationship between Clinical and Chemical Hyperandrogenism in 14-18-Years- Old Girls. Zahedan J Res Med Sci. 2012;14(4):e93469. doi:

More by these authors

Hooman AngooraniPubMed Scholar

Zohreh HaratianPubMed Scholar

Farzin HalabchiPubMed Scholar

Find related work

PubMed

Google Scholar

Create citation alert

Download PDF665.32 KB

Cited by

Scopus by DOI: 5
Last Update: 2 weeks ago
Scopus by Title: 5
Last Update: 2 weeks ago
Scopus by Title (Ref): 5
Last Update: 2 weeks ago
CrossRef: 4
Last Update: 6 days ago
OpenAlex: 7
Last Update: 6 hours ago
OpenCitations: 4
Last Update: 5 days ago

Metrics

Comments

Number of Comments:0