“Hearts that strain”: Distinguishing athlete's heart from hypertensive disease in the echo lab and beyond

Individuals with hypertension that engage in regular exercise comprise a special patient group that needs a careful approach to differentiate hypertensive cardiac damage from physiologic cardiac adaptations. Echocardiography is the diagnostic modality of choice in such cases. Hypertensive left ventr...

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Main Author: Costas Tsioufis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2018-05-01
Series:Hellenic Journal of Cardiology
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1109966618302501