ReviewCurrent treatment options in cardiovascular medicine2018
Speckle Tracking Echocardiography for the Assessment of the Athlete's Heart: Is It Ready for Daily Practice?
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- A concise guide of contemporary cardiovascular imaging practices to differentiate athlete's heart in the gray zone.Heart failure reviews · 2025Review
- Effect of Different Isometric Exercise Modalities on Myocardial Work in Trained Hypertensive Patients with Ischemic Heart Disease: A Randomized Pilot Study.Journal of functional morphology and kinesiology · 2025Article
- Rationale and design of the MICE study: Exploration of the temporal relation between electrical and mechanical events during myocardial ischemia.Cardiology journal · 2025Article
- Cardiac imaging in athlete's heart: current status and future prospects.Cardiovascular ultrasound · 2023Review
- Concentric and Eccentric Remodelling of the Left Ventricle and Its Association to Function in the Male Athletes Heart: An Exploratory Study.Journal of cardiovascular development and disease · 2023Article
- A New Tool to Aid the Differential Diagnosis of Physiological Remodelling from Cardiac Pathology When Assessing Left Ventricle, Left Atrial and Aortic Structure and Function in Male Arab and Black Paediatric Athletes.Journal of cardiovascular development and disease · 2023Article
- Effects of acromegaly treatment on left ventricular systolic function assessed by speckle tracking echocardiography in relation to sex differences: results from a prospective single center study.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2023Article
- Left Ventricular, Left Atrial and Right Ventricular Strain Modifications after Maximal Exercise in Elite Ski-Mountaineering Athletes: A Feasibility Speckle Tracking Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Changes in cardiac function following a speed ascent to the top of Europe at 4808 m.European journal of applied physiology · 2022Article
- Sport disciplines and cardiac remodeling in elite university athletes competing in 2017 Taipei Summer Universiade.Medicine · 2020Article
- Long-term athletic training does not alter age-associated reductions of left-ventricular mid-diastolic lengthening or expansion at rest.European journal of applied physiology · 2020Article
- Speckle tracking evaluation in endurance athletes: the "optimal" myocardial work.The international journal of cardiovascular imaging · 2020Article
- The strain and strain rate imaging paradox in echocardiography: overabundant literature in the last two decades but still uncertain clinical utility in an individual case.Archives of medical sciences. Atherosclerotic diseases · 2020Article
- Left Ventricular Systolic Function Assessed by Speckle Tracking Echocardiography in Athletes with and without Left Ventricle Hypertrophy.Journal of clinical medicine · 2019Article
- Myocardial Work Efficiency in Physiologic Left Ventricular Hypertrophy of Power Athletes.Journal of cardiovascular echographyArticle
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Abstract
purpose of reviewTo describe the use of speckle tracking echocardiography (STE) in the biventricular assessment of athletes' heart (AH). Can STE aid differential diagnosis during pre-participation cardiac screening (PCS) of athletes? RECENT
findingsData from recent patient, population and athlete studies suggest potential discriminatory value of STE, alongside standard echocardiographic measurements, in the early detection of clinically relevant systolic dysfunction. STE can also contribute to subsequent prognosis and risk stratification. Despite some heterogeneity in STE data in athletes, left ventricular global longitudinal strain (GLS) and right ventricular longitudinal strain (RV ɛ) indices can add to differential diagnostic protocols in PCS. STE should be used in addition to standard echocardiographic tools and be conducted by an experienced operator with significant knowledge of the AH. Other indices, including left ventricular circumferential strain and twist, may provide insight, but further research in clinical and athletic populations is warranted. This review also raises the potential role for STE measures performed during exercise as well as in serial follow-up as a method to improve diagnostic yield.
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