Subtle test results distinguish athlete's heart.

From: Internal Medicine News | Date: September 1, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

AUSTIN, TEX. -- Subtle clues in test results will help to differentiate athlete's heart from hypertrophic or dilated cardiomyopathy, Christine E. Lawless, M.D., said at the annual meeting of the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine.

It's tough to distinguish athlete's heart from hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) when an athlete's left ventricular wall is thickened in a nondilated, normally contractile left ventricle with no systolic anterior motion of the mitral valve, said Dr. Lawless, a cardiologist in group practice in Winfield, Ill.

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