Sports Cardiology

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-0-12-822817-3
Verlag: Elsevier Science

Buch, Englisch, Format (B × H): 191 mm x 235 mm

Sports Cardiology is a concise guide highlighting, in a digestible and contextual fashion, the core principles and numerous nuances surrounding the care of this unique population. The book covers the most common topics encountered in sports cardiology with didactic discussions surrounding diagnosis and management of these disease entities. Throughout, the authors integrate an understanding and appreciation for exercise physiology as it affects the heart and human body.

Multi-authored by former and current graduates of the Cardiovascular Performance Program at the Massachusetts General Hospital, the only cardiovascular fellowship of its kind providing advanced training in Sports Cardiology, many of these authors are thought-leaders in the field as well as experts in their respective case topics. Written for orthopaedic researchers, surgeons and students in the field.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Baggish, Aaron

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Section I: Clinical Toolkit
1. The Athlete's Heart - Cardiac Remodeling
2. ECG Criteria and Screening
3. Cardiac Testing in the Symptomatic Athlete
4. Intro to Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing
5. Benign Diagnoses of Exclusion

Section II: Vascular Heart Disease
6. Myocardial Infarction
7. Subclinical Atherosclerosis
8. MINOCA - Coronary Dissection/Spasm
9. Coronary Anomaly
10. Aortopathy/Root Dilation
11. Popliteal Entrapment

Section III: Structural Heart Disease
12. Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy - The Diagnostic Grey Zone
13. Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy - Principles of Management
14. Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy
15. Myocarditis
16. LV Non-Compaction
17. Congenital Heart Disease

Section IV: Electrical Heart Disease
18. Atrial Fibrillation/Atrial Flutter
19. Supraventricular Tachycardia/WPW
20. Ventricular Tachycardia
21. Bradycardia/Heart Block
22. Implantable Cardiac Defibrillators
23. Ectopic Beats
24. Channelopathies (Long QT/Brugada)

Section V: Environmental Triggers
25. Training Considerations (Asthma, Sickle cell)
26. Dive Medicine Considerations
27. Swimming Induced Pulmonary Edema
28. High Altitude Medicine
29. Performance Enhancing Agents and Therapeutic Exemptions

Section VI: Conclusions/Shared Decision Making

Über Autor(innen)

Baggish, Aaron
Aaron L. Baggish, MD, Director Cardiovascular Performance Program, Massachusetts General Hospital Heart Center, Boston, MA, USA.