Ironman Heart. What is the limit of health? Role of cardiac imaging

Abstract

Athlete's heart includes a series of morphological and functional adaptations directly related to the type of exercise, as well as to the degree of demand. We will analyze the characteristics in an elite male triathlete of high performance. We analyze the current role of cardiac imaging in cardiac structural and functional characterization in high performance athletes. With the incorporation and development of different echocardiography techniques, such as tissue Doppler, speckle tracking, strain rate, multislice coronary
CT and cardiac MRI. These methods allow us to better understand adaptations in high performance athletes, with the ultimate goal of detecting pathologies, mainly cardiomyopathies that could cause SCD (sudden cardiac death) during sports practice.