Discrimination between physiologic and pathologic left ventricular dilatation.
The identification of certain cardiovascular disease in athletes may constitute the basis for disqualification from competition in an effort to minimize the risk of sudden cardiac death. The aim of this study was to assess diastolic and systolic parameters measured by tissue Doppler imaging in endurance veteran athletes who had prominent cardiac dilatation and patients with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy in order to determine whether these variables might differentiate each other.
Hulya Akhan
HA
Kasikcioglu
Erdem
E
Kasikcioglu
Huseyin
H
Oflaz
Sennur
S
Unal
Berrin
B
Topcu
Zeynep
Z
Tartan
Armagan
A
Arslan
Nese
N
Cam
Abidin
A
Kayserilioglu
D000328:Adult; D001783:Blood Flow Velocity; D002311:Cardiomyopathy, Dilated / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology*; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D003971:Diastole; D015150:Echocardiography, Doppler; D004562:Electrocardiography; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010807:Physical Endurance; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D013177:Sports; D013599:Systole; D014664:Vasodilation; D016277:Ventricular Function, Left