Key result
Review outlines diagnostic criteria differentiating physiological athletic heart adaptations from cardiac pathology.
Provides a comprehensive overview of sports cardiology concepts, emphasizing careful medical screening and ECG interpretation to avoid misdiagnosing athletic adaptation as structural heart disease.
Supports careful ECG interpretation in young athletes to avoid misdiagnosis; extends syntheses but leaves open prospective validation.
In the article the basic concepts of sports medicine and the features of the electrocardiogram occurring the athletic training are determined. The basic differential concepts of «athletic heart» and principles of inspections of potential sportsmen are presented. The development of the athlete's heart is a fascinating phenomenon produced by physiologic adaptations to the increased demands of exercise. Athletic training can cause morphological cardiac changes as part of physiological adaptation. The problem of «athletic heart» at children who are actively going in for sports and the complexity in the definition of physiological parameters at young athletes and necessity of perfection of the medical control over young sportsmen.
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Н. А. Скуратова (2010) conducted a review in Athletic heart. Athletic training was evaluated. The review outlines the physiological adaptations of the athletic heart, associated electrocardiographic features, and differential diagnostic criteria to distinguish it from cardiac pathology.
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