Benefits and limitations of electrocardiographic and echocardiographic screening in top level endurance athletes

• Main Authors: Agnieszka A. Jakubiak (Author), Marcin Konopka (Author), Dominik Bursa (Author), Wojciech Król (Author), Krystyna Anioł-Strzyżewska (Author), Krystyna Burkhard-Jagodzińska (Author), Dariusz Sitkowski (Author), Marek Kuch (Author), Wojciech Braksator (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Termedia Publishing House, 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The study was designed to assess the usefulness of routine electrocardiography (ECG) as well as transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) in screening top level endurance athletes. An additional goal was to attempt to identify factors determining occurrence of adaptive and abnormal changes in ECG and TTE...