Article Text

Download PDFPDF

Images in...
Electrocardiographic changes in an athlete before and after detraining
Free
  1. Saqib Ghani,
  2. Sanjay Sharma
  1. Cardiovascular Sciences Department, St George’s University London, London, UK
  1. Correspondence to Dr Saqib Ghani, saqibghani{at}hotmail.com

Statistics from Altmetric.com

Request Permissions

If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.

Description

A young Caucasian female professional athlete underwent a 12-lead ECG as a part of preparticipation cardiovascular screening. She trained and exercised for an average 20 h per week. There were no symptoms or relevant family history reported, and cardiovascular examination was normal. The ECG exhibited T-wave inversion in the inferior and lateral leads (figure 1). These ECG findings were considered abnormal, and warranted further investigations based on recent …

View Full Text

Footnotes

  • Competing interests None.

  • Patient consent Obtained.