Chen, Hang
Warncke, Malte L.
Muellerleile, Kai
Saering, Dennis
Beitzen-Heineke, Antonia
Kisters, Anna
Swiderska, Monika
Cavus, Ersin
Jahnke, Charlotte M.
Adam, Gerhard
Lund, Gunnar K.
Tahir, Enver http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6999-2787
Funding for this research was provided by:
Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE)
Article History
Received: 27 June 2021
Revised: 2 September 2021
Accepted: 11 October 2021
First Online: 13 December 2021
Declarations
:
: The scientific guarantor of this publication is Enver Tahir, MD.
: The authors of this manuscript declare no relationships with any companies whose products or services may be related to the subject matter of the article.
: No complex statistical methods were necessary for this paper.
: All participants gave their written informed consent before being included in this study.
: The ethics committee of the general medical council approved the study (PV4764).
: CMR findings including baseline exercise test parameters, ventricular volumes, T1 relaxation times, and distribution of focal myocardial fibrosis visualized by late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) imaging of male and female triathletes as well as LV strain values of male triathletes were reported in two previous publications. A third follow-up publication on 30 male triathletes described post-race ventricular and atrial volumes, diastolic LV filling patterns, and T1/T2 relaxation times.The current study expands the number of triathletes by <i>N</i> = 20. Apart from <i>N</i> = 10 additional male triathletes (one with focal myocardial fibrosis), the current study also includes <i>N</i> = 10 female triathletes.The current study focuses on the alterations of left ventricular, right ventricular, and left atrial strain in male and female triathletes as well as in athletes with focal myocardial fibrosis (LGE +) following an endurance race.
: • prospective• observational• performed at one institution