Echocardiography is essential for differentiating physiological adaptations from pathological changes in athletes' hearts.
This review highlights the evolving echocardiographic criteria needed to accurately differentiate benign exercise-induced cardiac remodeling from underlying cardiomyopathies in athletes.
Effect estimate: HR 0.76
There have been recent publications regarding improved diagnostic criteria for apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, shift towards "excessive trabeculations" rather than historically termed non-compaction, and expanding knowledge of arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathies. Exercise induced cardiac remodeling can be mistaken for these pathologies, among others. As the evaluation of cardiomyopathies changes with the growing understanding of the pathology, it is important that these updates are compared to the potential physiologic adaptation seen in athletic training. It is imperative for the practicing cardiologist to remain knowledgeable of these evolving guidelines.
Fritzlen et al. (Sat,) conducted a other in Exercise induced cardiac remodeling. Echocardiography is essential for differentiating physiological adaptations from pathological changes in athletes' hearts.