The Athlete's Heart—Challenges and Controversies: JACC Focus Seminar 4/4

A La Gerche, MM Wasfy, MJ Brosnan… - Journal of the American …, 2022 - jacc.org
Regular exercise promotes structural, functional, and electrical remodeling of the heart, often
referred to as the “athlete's heart,” with intense endurance sports being associated with the …

Myocarditis in athletes is a challenge: diagnosis, risk stratification, and uncertainties

C Eichhorn, L Bière, F Schnell, C Schmied… - Cardiovascular …, 2020 - jacc.org
Presentation of myocarditis in athletes is heterogeneous and establishing the diagnosis is
challenging with no current uniform clinical gold standard. The combined information from …

2019 HRS expert consensus statement on evaluation, risk stratification, and management of arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy

JA Towbin, WJ McKenna, DJ Abrams, MJ Ackerman… - Heart rhythm, 2019 - Elsevier
Arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy (ACM) is an arrhythmogenic disorder of the myocardium
not secondary to ischemic, hypertensive, or valvular heart disease. ACM incorporates a …

Female athlete's heart: sex effects on electrical and structural remodeling

F D'Ascenzi, F Biella, E Lemme… - Circulation …, 2020 - ahajournals.org
Background: Most of our knowledge on training-induced cardiac remodeling is derived from
men, with the paucity of data from women representing an important gap in knowledge. The …

Differences in cardiac adaptation to exercise in male and female athletes assessed by noninvasive techniques: a state-of-the-art review

Z Lasocka-Koriat, Z Lewicka-Potocka… - American Journal …, 2024 - journals.physiology.org
Athlete's heart is generally regarded as a physiological adaptation to regular training, with
specific morphological and functional alterations in the cardiovascular system. Development …

Impact of Sex on Cardiovascular Adaptations to Exercise: JACC Review Topic of the Week

BJ Petek, EH Chung, JH Kim, R Lampert… - Journal of the American …, 2023 - jacc.org
Routine exercise leads to cardiovascular adaptations that differ based on sex. Use of
cardiac testing to screen athletes has driven research to define how these sex-based …

ECG T‐wave morphologic variations predict ventricular arrhythmic risk in low‐and moderate‐risk populations

J Ramírez, A Kiviniemi… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ahajournals.org
Background Early identification of individuals at risk of sudden cardiac death (SCD) remains
a major challenge. The ECG is a simple, common test, with potential for large‐scale …

Risk of sports-related sudden cardiac death in women

D Rajan, R Garcia, J Svane… - European heart …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Sudden cardiac death (SCD) is a tragic incident accountable for up to 50% of deaths from
cardiovascular disease. Sports-related SCD (SrSCD) is a phenomenon which has …

Accuracy of the 2017 international recommendations for clinicians who interpret adolescent athletes' ECGs: a cohort study of 11 168 British white and black soccer …

A Malhotra, H Dhutia, TJ Yeo, G Finocchiaro… - British journal of sports …, 2020 - bjsm.bmj.com
Aim To investigate the accuracy of the recently published international recommendations for
ECG interpretation in young athletes in a large cohort of white and black adolescent soccer …

Position statement on women's cardiovascular health–2022

GMM Oliveira, MCC Almeida… - Arquivos Brasileiros …, 2022 - SciELO Brasil
Of the noncommunicable chronic diseases, CVDs are the leading cause of death around the
world and in Brazil, which has one of the highest mortality rates in South America. 1 The …