MethodAn Ultrasound Speckle Tracking (Two-Dimensional Strain) Analysis of Myocardial Deformation in Professional Soccer Players Compared With Healthy Subjects and Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
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Methods and Results
Seventeen healthy control subjects, 29 PSPs, and 26 patients with familial nonobstructive HC were included in the study. PSPs were in a top-level team of the French first-division soccer championship, who train an average of 15 hours/week. None of the screened athletes was excluded. All patients with HC were required to have a positive family history for the disease. Criteria for asymmetric HC were septal wall thickness >15 mm, septal–posterior wall thickness ratio >1.3, and, for patients with
Discussion
This study assessed the role of 2-dimensional strain in evaluating global and regional function in highly trained football players and its ability to differentiate athlete’s heart from HC. Our results showed that (1) PSPs had a different strain profile at rest than control subjects and patients with HC, (2) myocardial deformation significantly decreased in patients with HC compared with PSPs and controls, (3) 2-dimensional strain can be used to differentiate athletes with LV hypertrophy from
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