Exercise stress echocardiography (ESE) serves as a crucial diagnostic tool for assessing cardiovascular health in athletes and distinguishing physiological adaptations from pathological conditions.
This review highlights the utility and limitations of exercise stress echocardiography, including advanced strain imaging, in differentiating physiological athlete's heart from pathological cardiovascular conditions.
This comprehensive review explores the role of exercise stress echocardiography (ESE) in assessing cardiovascular health in athletes. Athletes often exhibit cardiovascular adaptations because of rigorous physical training, making the differentiation between physiological changes and potential pathological conditions challenging. ESE is a crucial diagnostic tool, offering detailed insights into an athlete's cardiac function, reserve, and possible arrhythmias. This review highlights the methodology of ESE, emphasizing its significance in detecting exercise-induced anomalies and its application in distinguishing between athlete's heart and other cardiovascular diseases. Recent advancements, such as LV global longitudinal strain (GLS) and myocardial work (MW), are introduced as innovative tools for the early detection of latent cardiac dysfunctions. However, the use of ESE also subsumes limitations and possible pitfalls, particularly in interpretation and potential false results, as explained in this article.
Palermi et al. (Thu,) conducted a review in Cardiovascular health in athletes. Exercise stress echocardiography (ESE) was evaluated. Exercise stress echocardiography (ESE) serves as a crucial diagnostic tool for assessing cardiovascular health in athletes and distinguishing physiological adaptations from pathological conditions.
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