Long-Term Cardiac Remodeling in Elite Athletes: Assessment by Tissue Doppler and Speckle Tracking Echocardiography

DEMIRELLI S., ŞAM C. T., ERMIS E., DEĞİRMENCİ H., ŞEN İ., Arisoy A., ...More

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY-A JOURNAL OF CARDIOVASCULAR ULTRASOUND AND ALLIED TECHNIQUES, vol.32, no.9, pp.1367-1373, 2015 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 32 Issue: 9
  • Publication Date: 2015
  • Doi Number: 10.1111/echo.12860
  • Journal Name: ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY-A JOURNAL OF CARDIOVASCULAR ULTRASOUND AND ALLIED TECHNIQUES
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.1367-1373
  • Keywords: athlete's heart, left ventricular function, tissue and strain Doppler echocardiography, ATRIAL VOLUME INDEX, STRAIN-RATE, MYOCARDIAL STRAIN, HEART, ENDURANCE, CONTRACTILITY, VALIDATION
  • Recep Tayyip Erdoğan University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

AimsCurrently, it remains unclear whether there are differences in the long-term physiologic and adaptive changes in an athlete's heart, varying by the type of exercise undertaken. In this study, we used standard and speckle tracking echocardiography (STE) to evaluate the long-term effects of cardiac remodeling, which persisted many years after retiring from professional sports (marathon running and wrestling).