Athlete’s Heart
A Multimodal Approach – From Physiological to Pathological Cardiac Adaptations
- 1st Edition - May 3, 2023
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Authors: Antonello D’Andrea, Eduardo Bossone
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 5 2 2 1 - 7
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 5 2 2 2 - 4
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Request a sales quoteAthlete's Heart: A Multimodal Approach – From Physiological to Pathological Cardiac Adaptations provides a complete overview of all adaptations of the heart to sport practice by highlighting the different diagnosis between athlete’s heart and pathological remodeling. Written by international experts in the field, chapters discuss ECG findings, echocardiogram data, cardiac magnetic resonance and new forms of multimodality imaging, providing readers with evidence-based guidance on how to differentiate athlete's heart from cardiomyopathies.
Athlete's heart is the term given to a constellation of cardiac structural, functional and electrical remodeling that accompanies regular athletic training. Due to the substantial phenotypic overlap between electrical and structural changes observed in the physiological athletic heart remodeling and pathological changes resulted from inherited or acquired cardiomyopathies, distinguishing between adaptive and maladaptive cardiovascular response to exercise is a challenging task.
- Presents a comprehensive overview of exercise-induced cardiac adaptations
- Provides practical aspects for a differential diagnosis between a physiological and a pathological cardiac remodeling
- Includes new imaging technics, with a special focus on multi-modality imaging, such as exercise echocardiography, and new echocardiographic modalities (3D Strain)
Cardiovascular researchers, sports cardiologists, general cardiologists, and sports medicine specialists
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contributors
- Chapter 1: What is athlete’s heart?
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Athlete’s heart: Should we need a more specific definition?
- 3: SCD in athletes: The entity of the problem
- 4: Preparticipation cardiovascular screening in athletes
- 5: The role of electrocardiography in the preparticipation
- 6: Indications for further cardiovascular tests
- 7: Cardiovascular screening in older athletes
- 8: Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 2: Physiological and pathological cardiac adaptations to physical exercise
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Physiological modification of the heart with physical exercise
- 3: Physiological modifications in different sports
- 4: Special environment
- 5: Doping and cardiovascular effects
- 6: Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 3: Electrocardiogram in athletes
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Common and training-related ECG changes in athletes
- 3: Normal ECG changes related to demographics: Age, sex, and ethnicity
- 4: Uncommon and training-unrelated ECG changes in athletes
- 5: Nonspecific ECG findings in athletes
- 6: Supraventricular or ventricular arrhythmias on ambulatory rhythm monitoring
- 7: Overlap ECG pattern between athlete’s heart and pathologies
- 8: Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 4: Echocardiogram in athlete’s heart
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Left heart
- 3: Right heart
- 4: Vessels
- 5: New echocardiographic techniques
- 6: Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 5: Multimodality imaging in athlete’s heart
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Exercise stress testing
- 3: Exercise stress echocardiography
- 4: Cardiac magnetic resonance
- 5: Coronary computed tomography
- 6: Cardiac nuclear imaging
- 7: Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 6: Gray zones in athlete’s heart
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Left ventricular hypertrophy or hypertrophic cardiomyopathy?
- 3: Athlete’s heart or dilated cardiomyopathy?
- 4: Left ventricular noncompaction cardiomyopathy or adaptive hypertrabeculation?
- 5: Right ventricular physiological dilation or arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy?
- 6: Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 7: Genetic testing in athletes
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Genetic testing in athletes
- 3: Inherited cardiac disorders in athletes
- 4: Conclusion
- References
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: May 3, 2023
- No. of pages (Paperback): 192
- No. of pages (eBook): 192
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323952217
- eBook ISBN: 9780323952224
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Antonello D’Andrea
Dr. Antonello D’Andrea is Director of the Complex Unit of Cardiology and Intensive Care at the Umberto I Hospital Nocera Inf and Head of the ICU of the Cardiology Department of the Second University of Naples, Italy.
His research interests include non-invasive diagnostic cardiology in the acute and chronic patients, left ventricular hypertrophy and athlete's heart. He is the author of numerous manuscripts, chapters and reviews addressing changes induced by different sport activities in the heart’s structure and cardiac response.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitell. Director, Unit of Cardiology and Intensive Care, Umberto I Hospital, Naples, ItalyEB
Eduardo Bossone
Prof. Bossone MD, PhD, FCCP, FESC, FACC graduated with honors in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Naples "Federico II". He is specialist in cardiology, respiratory diseases and PhD in cardiovascular sciences. He is a fellow of the European Society of Cardiology, American College of Chest Physician, American College of Cardiology and Adjunct Professor at the Cardiology Fellowship Program and International PhD Program in Cardiovascular Pathophysiology and Therapeutics, University of Naples. In 2006 for his scientific merits, he was awarded the title of scholar of the Italian Society of Cardiology.
Affiliations and expertise
Director Cardiology Division University of Salerno, Amalfi Coast Hospital, Lauro-Avellino, ItalyRead Athlete’s Heart on ScienceDirect