GW29-e0403 A Novel Cost-Effective Non-Invasive Imaging Criteria For Detection Of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy In Elite Athletes

Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy in Youth Athletes

Screening for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in young athletes

Expert Answers to Three Key Questions What constitutes adequate and cost-effective cardiac screening prior to vigorous activity for collegiate athletes and older adults? A. Pelliccia 165 What is the current and future role of genetic testing in the screening and evaluation of athletes? R. E. Pyeritz 172 How does the cardiologist evaluate and advise young individuals with potentially dangerous c...

Screening for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in young athletes.

BACKGROUND For more than 20 years in Italy, young athletes have been screened before participating in competitive sports. We assessed whether this strategy results in the prevention of sudden death from hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a common cardiovascular cause of death in young athletes. METHODS We prospectively studied sudden deaths among athletes and nonathletes (35 years of age or less) i...

Elite or non elite: ccomparing mindfulness Items in Iranian athletes

The purpose of this study was to compare selected Mindful skills in Iranian athletes.  The athlete's sample included 112 athletes with 23.6 average. The FFMQ has been shown to have strong psychometric characteristics, including adequate to excellent internal consistencies for all five facets (Cronbach's alpha ranging from 0.72 to 0.92) as well as good construct validity (2). Cronbach's alpha fo...

Differentiating physiology from pathology in elite athletes. Left ventricular hypertrophy versus hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

Kardiologia Polska Copyright © Polskie Towarzystwo Kardiologiczne 2016 Hubert Krysztofiak, MD, PhD is the Head of the National Centre for Sports Medicine and an investigator at the Mossakowski Medical Research Centre of Polish Academy of Sciences. He is responsible for the medical care for Olympians. An important part of his activity is screening for, and management of, medical conditions that ...