Clinical significance of ST depression at exercise stress testing in competitive athletes: usefulness of coronary CT during screening.

CONCLUSIONS: In competitive athletes even with excellent workload capacities, in absence of cardiomyopathy, the presence of ischaemic electrocardiographic abnormalities could be mainly determined by a coronary congenital or acquired pathology. In this population CCTA is an useful imaging modality of choice for the risk stratification and for the diagnostic process, to allow eligible athletes to compete and to follow up subjects requiring medical surveillance. PMID: 29148628 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Journal of Sports Medicine and Physical Fitness - Category: Sports Medicine Tags: J Sports Med Phys Fitness Source Type: research