Purpose To assess cardiac morphologic and functional adaptations in elite triathletes with
magnetic resonance (MR) imaging and to compare findings to those in recreationally active …

Abstract “Athlete's heart” is characterized by an increase in ventricular chamber sizes and
myocardial mass (MM), and is mainly observed in endurance athletes. At present, it remains …

Purpose To study young adult elite athletes with age‐and sex‐matched sedentary controls
to assess sex‐specific differences for left ventricular (LV) and right ventricular (RV) volumes …

PURPOSE: Increasing age is accompanied by a higher risk of sports-related death,
especially from coronary disease and cardiomyopathies. It is unclear if the mature athlete's …

Objectives: Athlete's heart represents a structural and functional adaptation to regular
endurance exercise. Background: While left ventricular (LV) hypertrophy of the athlete's …

Background—It is under debate whether the cumulative effects of intensive endurance
exercise induce chronic cardiac damage, mainly involving the right heart. The aim of this …

Prolonged and intensive exercise induces remodeling of all four cardiac chambers, a
physiological process which is coined as the “athlete's heart”. This cardiac adaptation …

Background—Cardiac remodeling occurs in response to regular athletic training, and the
degree of remodeling is associated with fitness. Understanding the myocardial structural …

Background Data are scarce regarding left atrial (LA) adaptation to regular physical
exercise. The aim of this study was to examine left ventricular (LV) and also LA morphologic …

Objectives. Little data exists on atrial adaptation to training in women. Furthermore, data on
right atrial (RA) volumes is lacking for both male and female athletes. The objective of this …