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athlete's heart |
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athlete's heart [ath′lēts] an enlarged but otherwise normal heart of an athlete trained for endurance. It is characterized by a low heart rate, an increased pumping capacity, and a greater ability to deliver oxygen to skeletal muscles. It may sometimes be confused with left ventricular hypertrophy. Also called athletic heart syndrome (AHS). athlete's heart Athletic heart syndrome Sports medicine A heart typical of trained athletes, and characterized by ↑ left ventricular diastolic volume and ↑ thickness of the left ventricular wall, as seen by 2-D
echocardiography; arrhythmias seen in athletes' hearts are usually benign and include sinus bradycardia, wandering pacemaker, cardiac blocks, nodal rhythm, atrial fibrillation, ST segment and T-wave changes, ↑ P wave amplitude, right
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