Background: Regular intense physical exercise causes cardiovascular adaptations as well as functional and morphological changes in the athlete’s heart. The aim of the present study is to characterize those changes using conventional echocardiography and new speckle tracking techniques to study myocardial deformation. Methods: 68 men were studied. 38 long distance runners (42±8 years), and 30 sedentary controls (40±7 years). Standard transthoracic echocardiography was performed: M mode, 2D, tissue and colour Doppler. Deformation parameters were studied by speckle tracking at short axis view basal (B), medium (M) and apical (Ap) levels and apical 4 and 2 chamber view of the left ventricle (LV) and right ventricle (RV). Longitudinal, radial an...
Purpose The increase in systolic indexes from rest (R) to exercise is achieved by combination of enh...
The hearts of young patients with hypertension are characterized by reduced global lomgitudinal stra...
The aim of this study was to evaluate selected parameters of strain and rotation of the left ventric...
Aims Assessment of the left ventricular responses to prolonged exercise has been limited by technolo...
BACKGROUND: Intensive training induces two morphological myocardial typologies of athlete's heart. E...
To analyze left ventricular myocardial deformation and contractile reserve in endurance athletes at ...
Purpose. Adaptations to exercise are dependent on the specific type of training performed. Previous ...
Background: Two-dimensional speckle-tracking echocardiography is an emerging modality for the assess...
Background: Prolonged aerobic exercise such as marathon running produces supraphysiological hemodyna...
AimsPrevious studies have shown distinct models of cardiac adaptations to the training in master ath...
Aim. There is a longstanding debate over the long-term effect of intensive endurance training on car...
Background The development and rapid dissemination of two-dimensional echocardiography led to import...
BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to define the range of left ventricular (LV) velocities and d...
Of this study was to investigate three groups of highly trained competitive endurance athletes consi...
PubMed ID: 17410479Background: Long-term regular exercise is associated with physiologic and morphol...
Purpose The increase in systolic indexes from rest (R) to exercise is achieved by combination of enh...
The hearts of young patients with hypertension are characterized by reduced global lomgitudinal stra...
The aim of this study was to evaluate selected parameters of strain and rotation of the left ventric...
Aims Assessment of the left ventricular responses to prolonged exercise has been limited by technolo...
BACKGROUND: Intensive training induces two morphological myocardial typologies of athlete's heart. E...
To analyze left ventricular myocardial deformation and contractile reserve in endurance athletes at ...
Purpose. Adaptations to exercise are dependent on the specific type of training performed. Previous ...
Background: Two-dimensional speckle-tracking echocardiography is an emerging modality for the assess...
Background: Prolonged aerobic exercise such as marathon running produces supraphysiological hemodyna...
AimsPrevious studies have shown distinct models of cardiac adaptations to the training in master ath...
Aim. There is a longstanding debate over the long-term effect of intensive endurance training on car...
Background The development and rapid dissemination of two-dimensional echocardiography led to import...
BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to define the range of left ventricular (LV) velocities and d...
Of this study was to investigate three groups of highly trained competitive endurance athletes consi...
PubMed ID: 17410479Background: Long-term regular exercise is associated with physiologic and morphol...
Purpose The increase in systolic indexes from rest (R) to exercise is achieved by combination of enh...
The hearts of young patients with hypertension are characterized by reduced global lomgitudinal stra...
The aim of this study was to evaluate selected parameters of strain and rotation of the left ventric...