ReviewClinical cardiology2020
The adolescent athlete's heart; A miniature adult or grown-up child?
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- Cardiac evaluation of paediatric athletes.European heart journal · 2026Guideline
- Ventricular Repolarization Abnormalities in Pediatric Athletes: A Practical Approach to Clinical Evaluation.Journal of cardiovascular development and disease · 2026Review
- Greater weekly exercise volume is associated with lower prevalence of metabolic comorbidities, psychiatric conditions, and exertional symptoms in youth athletes undergoing pre-participation screening: an observational study.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2026Article
- Cardiac Deformation Patterns During Exercise in Healthy Children.Journal of cardiovascular development and disease · 2025Article
- Cardiac adaptations in young triathletes: a 9-month longitudinal study during the peak height velocity period.European journal of applied physiology · 2025Article
- Definitional Challenges in Understanding Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Beyond the Finish Line: Examining the Role of Children in Marathon Races-A Narrative Review.Journal of functional morphology and kinesiology · 2024Review
- Primary Care Considerations for the Pediatric Endurance Athlete.Current reviews in musculoskeletal medicine · 2024Review
- The Fragmented QRS Complex in Lead VJournal of cardiovascular translational research · 2024Article
- Athlete's Heart: A Cardiovascular Step-By-Step Multimodality Approach.Reviews in cardiovascular medicine · 2023Review
- Normative data in resting and maximum heart rates and a prediction equation for young Tunisian soccer players: a cross-sectional study.EXCLI journal · 2023Article
- Cardiovascular health and potential cardiovascular risk factors in young athletes.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2023Article
- Certainties and Uncertainties of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Athletes.Journal of cardiovascular development and disease · 2022Review
- Antioxidant Molecular Brain Changes Parallel Adaptive Cardiovascular Response to Forced Running in Mice.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Comprehensive cardiac evaluation to maximal exercise in a contemporary population of prepubertal children.Pediatric research · 2022Article
- Recommendations on Youth Participation in Ultra-Endurance Running Events: A Consensus Statement.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2021Article
- Age-Related Electrocardiographic Characteristics of Male Junior Soccer Athletes.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2021Article
- The adolescent athlete's heart; A miniature adult or grown-up child?Clinical cardiology · 2020Review
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Abstract
The systematic development of early age talent in sports academies has led to the professionalization of pediatric sport and the sports physician need to be aware of pediatric cardiological problems. Research into the medical cardiac care and assessment of the pediatric athlete are accumulating, but specific pediatric international guidelines are not available yet and reference data for ECG and echocardiography are incomplete, in particular for the age group <12 years of age. This article is an introduction to the physiological and diagnostics specifics of the pediatric athlete. The focus lies in the differences in presentation and diagnosis between pediatric and adult athletes for the most common pathologies. Reference data for electrical and structural adaptations to intensive exercise are sparse particularly in athletes aged below 12 years old. Training related changes include decrease of resting heart rate, increase of cardiac output, ventricular cavity size, and wall thickness. Cardiac hypertrophy is less pronounced in pediatric athletes, as HR mediated cardiac output increase to endurance exercise is the dominant mechanism in peripubertal children. As in adults, the most pronounced cardiovascular adaptations appear in classical endurance sports like rowing, triathlon, and swimming, but the specifics of pediatric ECG and echocardiographic changes need to be considered.
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