Stručni rad
The outcome of long-term intensive physical activity on the heart
Duje Čulina
; Medicinski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu
Zdravko Babić
; Klinika za bolesti srca i krvnih žila, KBC Sestre Milosrdnice
Sažetak
Sports activities can generally be divided into endurance exercises, strength exercises, and most frequent in those which consist of both previously mentioned types. Physiological adjustment of the heart on strenuous and long-lasting physical activity consist of wall thickening and increased chamber’s volume, and is called athlete’s heart. If those continuously strenuous loads are associated with certain risk factors, it leads to permanent pathological changes that are classified as term “cardiac overuse injury”. Those changes manifest with morphologic deformations of the cardiac tissue and with cardiac functional defects. Due to the increased incidence of a sudden cardiac death in persons with cardiac overuse injury, a diagnose of this condition at the right time is of extreme clinical significance.
For discovering that condition, both classic and modern diagnostic methods are used. Significant caution is needed because of the thin line between the changes in an athlete’s heart and cardiac overuse injury. Different studies determined changes that can be quantified with certain diagnostic methods that lead to diagnose of cardiac overuse injury, and consequently require lowering the level, temporary or permanent abstinence from sports activities, or refer to state that require further diagnostic evaluation and therapy.
Ključne riječi
sport activity, cardiac overuse injury, modern diagnostic methods
Hrčak ID:
277894
URI
Datum izdavanja:
20.12.2021.
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