ReviewEuropean heart journal. Cardiovascular Imaging2024
Diastolic function and dysfunction in athletes.
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- Investigating Biventricular Intracardiac Flow Remodeling in Marathon Athletes With 4D Flow Cardiac MRI.Journal of magnetic resonance imaging : JMRI · 2026Article
- Mediterranean Diet and Physical Exercise for Cardiometabolic Health: A Narrative Review.Nutrients · 2026Review
- Echocardiography and Sports Cardiology: Expanding Horizons From Elite Athletes to Advanced Cardiovascular Disease.Reviews in cardiovascular medicine · 2026Article
- Characteristics of sudden cardiac arrest during endurance racing: a decade of the Paris registry.Europace : European pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac electrophysiology : journal of the working groups on cardiac pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac cellular electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology · 2026Article
- Association of TNF-R1 with Exercise Capacity in Asymptomatic Hypertensive Heart Disease-Mediating Role of Left Ventricular Diastolic Function Deterioration.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Key Resting Echocardiographic Parameters for the Estimation of Exercise Parameters of Peak VO2, Heart Rate Recovery, and Ventilatory Efficiency.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Effect of exercise training on cardiac function and glucose metabolism in the ischemic border zone: insights from multi-modal imaging techniques.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2025Article
- Regulatory mechanisms of exercise-induced physiological cardiac hypertrophy: progress and prospects.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2025Review
- Focus issue on heart failure with preserved left ventricular ejection fraction.European heart journal. Cardiovascular Imaging · 2024Article
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Abstract
Cardiac remodelling is often most profound in male athletes and in athletes with the greatest volumes of endurance training and is characterized by chamber enlargement and a mild-to-modest hypertrophy. The diastolic filling of the left ventricle (LV) is a complex process including the early recoil of the contracted LV, the active relaxation of the myocardium, the compliance of the myocardium, the filling pressures, and heart rate. Echocardiography is the cornerstone for the clinical assessment of LV diastolic function. LV diastolic function is usually enhanced in elite endurance athletes characterized by improved early filling of the ventricle, while it is preserved or enhanced in other athletes associated with the type of training being performed. This allows for the high performance of any endurance athlete. Typical findings when using resting echocardiography for the assessment of LV diastolic function in endurance athletes include a dilated LV with normal or mildly reduced LV ejection fraction (EF), significantly enlarged left atrium (LA) beyond the commonly used cut-off of 34 mL/m2, and a significantly elevated E/A ratio. The early-diastolic mitral annular velocity and the E-wave peak velocity are usually normal. Importantly, interpretation of the echocardiographic indices of LV diastolic function should always consider the clinical context and other parameters of systolic and diastolic functions. In the absence of an underlying pathology, single measurements outside the expected range for similar athletes will often not represent the pathology.
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