Black athletes’ hearts

Is endomyocardial biopsy necessary in evaluating enlarged hearts in athletes?

Atrial Fibrillation in Athletes - The Story Behind The Running Hearts.

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most commonly encountered arrhythmia in clinical practice but the mechanisms underlying the initiation and maintenance of AF are yet to be clarified. It is wellknown that regular exercise is beneficial to health and reduces the risks of cardiovascular diseases. However, recent studies suggest that long-term endurance exercise, including running, swimming, rowing ...

Do big athletes have big hearts? Impact of extreme anthropometry upon cardiac hypertrophy in professional male athletes

AIM Differentiating physiological cardiac hypertrophy from pathology is challenging when the athlete presents with extreme anthropometry. While upper normal limits exist for maximal left ventricular (LV) wall thickness (14 mm) and LV internal diameter in diastole (LVIDd, 65 mm), it is unknown if these limits are applicable to athletes with a body surface area (BSA) >2.3 m(2). PURPOSE To inves...

Detection of cardiac abnormalities in elite black and white athletes: still not black and white.

1626 Sports are “hot.” The average cost of a 30-second advertisement at the 2014 Super Bowl was $4 000 000, and millions of fans worldwide spent much of their February 2014 watching the Sochi Winter Olympics and its advertising. Sports cardiology is also hot. The American College of Cardiology in 2011 established a section dedicated to sports and exercise cardiology, and now there are several s...

The hearts of competitive athletes: an up-to-date overview of exercise-induced cardiac adaptations.

Intense and regular physical exercise is responsible for various cardiac changes (electrical, structural and functional) that represent physiological adaptation to exercise training. This remodeling, commonly referred to as 'athlete's heart', can overlap with several pathological entities, in which sudden cardiac death may be the first clinical presentation. Although pre-competitive screening c...