The Athletic ECG: A Line of Defense Against Misinterpretation

A 17-year-old competitive athlete was found to have a minor electrocardiogram abnormality on routine screening. Cardiac magnetic resonance revealed evidence of marked myocarditis, allowing a subsequent safe abstinence from exercise. The case highlights the importance of careful electrocardiogram int...

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Autores principales: Ghelani, Rahul, Chow, Ji-Jian, Varnava, Amanda
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2022
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9700076/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36444192
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccas.2022.08.024
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description A 17-year-old competitive athlete was found to have a minor electrocardiogram abnormality on routine screening. Cardiac magnetic resonance revealed evidence of marked myocarditis, allowing a subsequent safe abstinence from exercise. The case highlights the importance of careful electrocardiogram interpretation, especially in athletes, where physiologic adaptive changes can pose a diagnostic challenge. (Level of Difficulty: Intermediate.)
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spelling pubmed-97000762022-11-27 The Athletic ECG: A Line of Defense Against Misinterpretation Ghelani, Rahul Chow, Ji-Jian Varnava, Amanda JACC Case Rep Case Report A 17-year-old competitive athlete was found to have a minor electrocardiogram abnormality on routine screening. Cardiac magnetic resonance revealed evidence of marked myocarditis, allowing a subsequent safe abstinence from exercise. The case highlights the importance of careful electrocardiogram interpretation, especially in athletes, where physiologic adaptive changes can pose a diagnostic challenge. (Level of Difficulty: Intermediate.) Elsevier 2022-11-16 /pmc/articles/PMC9700076/ /pubmed/36444192 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccas.2022.08.024 Text en Crown Copyright © 2022 Published by Elsevier on behalf of the American College of Cardiology Foundation. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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The Athletic ECG: A Line of Defense Against Misinterpretation
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