Can intense endurance exercise cause myocardial damage and fibrosis?

Current Sports Medicine Reports

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 63-69

  Gerche, Andre La ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; TROPONIN;

ARTICLE; ATHLETE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; ENDURANCE SPORT; ENDURANCE TRAINING; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HEART MUSCLE INJURY; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; LUNG CANCER; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SCAR; SMOKING; SOCIAL STATUS; TREADMILL; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; ATHLETES; EXERCISE; FIBROSIS; HUMANS; MYOCARDIUM; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE;

EID: 84877879214     PISSN: 1537890X     EISSN: 15378918     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/JSR.0b013e318287488a     Document Type: Article

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