The Munich triathlon heart study: Ventricular function, myocardial velocities, and two-dimensional strain in healthy children before and after endurance stress

Pediatric Cardiology

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 576-582

  Hauser, Michael ^a   Petzuch, Kurt ^a   Kühn, Andreas ^a   Schön, Patrick ^a   Elmenhorst, Julia ^a   Schönfelder, Martin ^a   Oberhoffer, Renate ^a   Vogt, Manfred O ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Children; Diastolic function; Echocardiography; Endurance stress; Systolic function; Tissue Doppler; Triathlon

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BODY SURFACE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; ENDURANCE TRAINING; FEMALE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART OUTPUT; HEART PRELOAD; HEART RATE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEAT STRESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; M MODE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SCHOOL CHILD; STARLING LAW; TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING; TRIATHLON; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANTHROPOMETRY; CARDIAC OUTPUT; CHILD; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, PULSED; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; PEDIATRICS; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX FACTORS; SPORTS; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 84879499169     PISSN: 01720643     EISSN: 14321971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00246-012-0500-8     Document Type: Article

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