Email this article Myocardial Hypertrophy in Athletes: Physiology or Pathology?
- Authors: Gavrilova E.A.1
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Affiliations:
- Mechnikov North-Western State Medical University
- Issue: Vol 44, No 3 (2018)
- Pages: 314-319
- Section: Article
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/0362-1197/article/view/177646
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S0362119718030064
- ID: 177646
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Abstract
This paper includes data from the 11th century to the present day on athlete’s heart and its most controversial trait, myocardial hypertrophy. Four historical stages in the evolution of the concept of athlete’s heart are considered: physical, electrocardiographic, echocardiographic, and magnetic resonance imaging stages.
About the authors
E. A. Gavrilova
Mechnikov North-Western State Medical University
Author for correspondence.
Email: gavrilovaea@mail.ru
Russian Federation, St. Petersburg, 195067
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