Doppler echocardiographic examinations in the assessment of the athletic heart

Acta Physiologica Hungarica

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 7-22

  Pavlik, G ^b,c   Olexó, Zsuzsanna ^b   Sido Z ^a   Frenkl, R ^b  

^a National Institute for Sports Medicine   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION   (Hungary)

^c NONE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Ageing; Athletic heart; Cardiac cycles; Doppler echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGING; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDURANCE; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEART; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART RATE; HEART VENTRICLE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RUNNING; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SPORT; SYSTOLE; WEIGHT LIFTING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGING; CHILD; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART; HEART RATE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE; RUNNING; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPORTS; SYSTOLE; WEIGHT LIFTING;

EID: 0033255196     PISSN: 0231424X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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