Why the study?
Does left ventricular twisting measured by 2D strain echocardiography differentiate functional cardiac hypertrophy in athletes from hypertensive cardiac hypertrophy?
Does left ventricular twisting measured by 2D strain echocardiography differentiate functional cardiac hypertrophy in athletes from hypertensive cardiac hypertrophy?
Left ventricular twisting measured by 2D strain echocardiography can help differentiate physiological cardiac hypertrophy in athletes from pathological hypertrophy in hypertensive patients.
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LVT may differentiate athlete's heart from hypertensive hypertrophy; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation before clinical adoption.
Santoro et al. (2011) studied this question.
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