Objectives Myocardial deformation integrated with cardiac dimensions provides a
comprehensive assessment of cardiac function, which has proven useful to differentiate …

Background—The question of whether training-induced left ventricular hypertrophy in
athletes is a physiological rather than a pathophysiological phenomenon remains …

Background Autopsies in athletes have shown that athletes have diffuse myocardial fibrosis,
and epidemiological findings place athletes at a greater relative risk of sudden death due to …

Over the last decades, interest toward athlete's heart has progressively increased, leading to
improve the knowledge on exercise-induced heart modifications. Sport may act as a trigger …

Rationale and Objectives: Long-term physical training is associated with morphological and
functional adaptations of the cardiovascular system. Aim of this prospective study was to …

Several previous studies suggested that prolonged and extensive physical activity might
lead to increased prevalence of myocardial fibrosis in athletes. The review summarizes …

Aims We sought to investigate the correlation between speckle-tracking echocardiography
(STE)-derived myocardial work (MW) and invasively measured contractility in a rat model of …

Background: Athletic cardiac remodeling can occasionally be difficult to differentiate from
pathological hypertrophy. Detraining is a commonly used diagnostic test to identify …

Background—Myocardial adaptations to exercise have been well documented among
competitive athletes. To what degree cardiac remodeling occurs among recreational …

Background The impact of high exercise loads on a previously healthy heart remains
controversial. We examined the consequences of decades of strenuous endurance exercise …