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Echocardiography in the evaluation of athletes.
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Cardiac evaluation of paediatric athletes.European heart journal · 2026Guideline
- Sex-Specific Differences in Cardiovascular Adaptations and Risks in Elite Athletes: Bridging the Gap in Sports Cardiology.Clinical cardiology · 2024Pooled it
- Charting the Unseen: How Non-Invasive Imaging Could Redefine Cardiovascular Prevention.Journal of cardiovascular development and disease · 2024Review
- Effect of maximum exercise on left ventricular deformation and its correlation with cardiopulmonary exercise capacity in competitive athletes.Echo research and practice · 2023Article
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- The elite judo female athlete's heart.Frontiers in physiology · 2022Article
- Assessment of left ventricular systolic function by non-invasive pressure-strain loop area in young male strength athletes.Cardiovascular ultrasound · 2020Article
- Echocardiographic assessment of asymptomatic US Air Force members with early HIV infection.BMC research notes · 2019Article
- Exploring the Aortic Root Diameter and Left Ventricle Size Among Lithuanian Athletes.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2019Article
- Adolescent Finswimmers: Early Myocardial Adaptations in Different Swimming Styles.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2018Article
- Echocardiography in Athletes in Primary Prevention of Sudden Death.Journal of cardiovascular echographyReview
- Different habitus but similar electrocardiogram: Cardiac repolarization parameters in children - Comparison of elite athletes to obese children.Annals of pediatric cardiologyArticle
- Preventing Sudden Cardiac Death among Athletes Using Echocardiography.Journal of cardiovascular echographyArticle
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Abstract
Echocardiography is currently a widely available imaging technique that can provide useful data in the field of sports cardiology particularly in two areas: pre-participation screening and analysis of the cardiac adaptation induced by exercise. The application of pre-participation screening and especially, the type and number of used diagnostic tests remains controversial. Echocardiography has shown though, higher sensitivity and specificity as compared to the ECG, following a protocol adapted to athletes focused on ruling out the causes of sudden death and the most common disorders in this population. It is still a subject of controversy the actual cost of adding it, but depending on the type of sport, echocardiography might be cost-effective if added in the first line of examination. Regarding the evaluation of cardiac adaptation to training in athletes, echocardiography has proved to be useful in the differential diagnosis of diseases that can cause sudden death, analysing both the left ventricle (hypertrophy cardiomyopathy, dilated cardiomyopathy, left ventricle non compaction) and the right ventricle (arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy). The aim of this paper is to review the current knowledge and the clinical practical implications of it on the field of echocardiography when applied in sport cardiology areas.
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