TY - JOUR 
A1 - Sanchís-Gomar, Fabián
AU - Garatachea, Nuria
AU - Catalán, Pilar
AU - López Ramón, Marta
AU - Lucía Mulas, Alejandro
AU - Serrano-Ostáriz, Enrique
T1 - LA Size in Former Elite Athletes
Y1 - 2016
SN - 1936878X
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11268/5011
AB - A recent meta-analysis by Iskandar et al. (1) nicely showed that endurance athletes have larger left atrial (LA) diameters compared with control subjects. Yet only 9 of 54 studies included in their analysis reported LA volume values corrected for body surface area (BSA). In fact, few studies have determined LA volume in young athletes, and, to the best of our knowledge, no study has reported this variable in older athletes. This is an important question given the growing debate about the potential deleterious effects of long-term strenuous endurance exercise on the human heart, notably the higher risk of atrial fibrillation (AF), a condition for which both atrial dilation and the normal aging process are thought to be potential causative mechanisms (2). Thus, we aimed to assess the long-term consequences of endurance exercise on LA volume in athletes who were highly competitive at younger ages and are still active. To this end, we compared BSA-corrected LA volumes determined with late gadolinium enhancement magnetic resonance imaging (LGE-MRI) in former elite endurance athletes and sedentary control subjects.
KW - Medicina deportiva
KW - Atletas
KW - Medicina deportiva
KW - Atleta
LA - eng
ER -