The athlete's heart and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: Two conditions which may be misdiagnosed and coexistent. Which parameters should be analysed to distinguish one disease from the other?

Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 257-266

  Caso, Pio ^a,b   D'Andrea, Antonello ^a   Caso, Ilaria ^a   Severino, Sergio ^a   Calabrò, Paolo ^a   Allocca, Francesca ^a   Mininni, Nicola ^a   Calabrò, Raffaele ^a  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^b NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Athlete's heart; Doppler myocardial imaging; Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy; Sport eligibility; Training; Ventricular hypertrophy

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ATHLETE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIASTOLE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; EXERCISE; GENOTYPE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART PERFORMANCE; HEART VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SYSTOLE; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE; METHODOLOGY; SPORT;

CARDIOMYOPATHY, HYPERTROPHIC; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, PULSED; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; SPORTS; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 33646441054     PISSN: 15582027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2459/01.JCM.0000219318.12504.bb     Document Type: Review

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