Enlargement of athlete's heart.(Brief Article)

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

Left atrial enlargement is relatively common in highly trained athletes, but arrhythmias and other cardiac pathologies are "exceedingly rare," reported Antonio Pelliccia, M.D., of Italy's National Institute of Sports Medicine, Rome, and his associates.

In what they described as the first study to systematically examine the prevalence of left atrial remodeling and related arrhythmias in elite athletes, Dr. Pelliccia and his associates examined 1,777 athletes aged 11-56 years who excelled at 38 different sports. Most (80%) had normal left atrial size, but 347 (20%) had ...

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