Echocardiography is essential for identifying structural heart disease and differentiating athlete's heart from cardiomyopathy to prevent sudden cardiac death in athletes.
Echocardiography is an irreplaceable first-line imaging technique for distinguishing an athlete's heart from cardiomyopathy and preventing sudden cardiac death during sports activities.
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Sudden cardiac death (SCD) in an athlete is always shocking. It is of the utmost importance to better understand the causes of SCD in athletes and to discover optimal strategies for prevention. Echocardiography is a noninvasive first-line imaging technique in the identification of structural heart disease and is also irreplaceable in distinguishing an athlete’s heart from cardiomyopathy. Therefore echocardiography is important in the prevention of sudden cardiac death during sports activities.
Petrovic et al. (Sun,) reported a other. Echocardiography is essential for identifying structural heart disease and differentiating athlete's heart from cardiomyopathy to prevent sudden cardiac death in athletes.