Hütt CE, Salas SJ

Language: Spanish
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ABSTRACT

The cardiovascular system adapts to exercise with morphologic and functional modifications. These modifications must be known to be able to differentiate them from pathologic changes. Cardiac dimensions in the athlete’s heart are usually normal when adjusted to body surface area so values on the grey zone must be studied. With detraining many of those modifications normalize, this is a unique characteristic of the athlete’s heart and it can serve as a diagnostic tool. Over the last years sudden death in highly trained athletes has increased in incidence and prevalence, which is why preparticipation screening and disqualification criteria have been developed. These screening tools include a thorough anamnesis and physical examination since these are the most sensitive and costeffective tools.

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