[Echocardiograhy in athletes].
The electrocardiogrammes and echocardiogrammes of 10 weight lifters and 20 endurance trained top class athletes (runners, basket ball players and cyclists) were analysed. The electrocardiogrammes confirmed the notion of a specific profile in endurance trained athletes with left ventricular diastolic overload pattern. The echocardiogrammes did not show increased left ventricular wall thickness in the resistance trained athletes. It did show however a clear increase in left ventricular internal diastolic dimension and posteror wall thickness--the anatomical substratum of the large heart in athletes--in some categories of endurance trained athletes (cyclists and basket ball players). No change in the indices of left ventricular performance was found in either group.
D000328:Adult; D004452:Echocardiography; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005260:Female; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013178:Sports Medicine; D016276:Ventricular Function; D014891:Weight Lifting
L'échocardiogramme chez les sportifs.