Adrienn Ujvári, Alexandra Fábián, Balint Lakatos, Márton Tokodi, Zsuzsanna Ladányi, Nóra Sydó, Emese Csulak, Hajnalka Vágó, Vencel Juhász, Kinga Grebur, Andrea Szűcs, Márk Zámodics, Máté Babity, Orsolya Kiss, Béla Merkely, Attila Kovács
The aim of this study was to characterize the right ventricular (RV) contraction pattern and its associations with exercise capacity in a large cohort of adolescent athletes using resting three-dimensional echocardiography (3DE). We enrolled 215 adolescent athletes (16±1 years, 169 males, 12±6 hours of training/week) and compared them to 38 age- and sex-matched healthy, sedentary adolescents. We measured the 3DE-derived biventricular ejection fractions (EF). We also determined the relative contributions of longitudinal EF (LEF/RVEF) and radial EF (REF/RVEF) to the RVEF...
February 1, 2024: International Journal of Sports Medicine