Usefulness of Doppler echocardiographic assessment of diastolic filling in distinguishing “athlete's heart” from hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

AUTOR(ES)

Lewis, Jannet F

RESUMO

Objective—In some athletes with a substantial increase in left ventricular wall thickness, it may be difficult to distinguish with certainty physiological hypertrophy due to athletic training from hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. The purpose of the present investigation was to determine whether assessment of left ventricular filling could differentiate between these two conditions.

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