Left ventricular hypertrophy in athletes.
Left ventricular wall thickness >1.3 cm, septal-to-posterior wall ratios > 1.5, diastolic left ventricular size >6.0 cm, and eccentric or concentric remodeling are rare in athletes. Values outside of these cutoffs in an athlete of any age probably represent a pathologic state.
Douglas
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Cardiovascular Division, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA.
O'Toole
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Katz
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Ginsburg
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Hiller
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Laird
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D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D006801:Humans; D017379:Hypertrophy, Left Ventricular; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013177:Sports / Q000502:physiology*