Best Practice Case Studies-The Heart of the Athlete

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Dr. Aaron Baggish delivers a detailed lecture on the athlete's heart, focusing on the differentiation between physiological adaptations from exercise and pathological heart conditions. Dr. Baggish highlights the structural changes the heart undergoes in athletes, influenced by the type of sports and the nature of training. The talk delves into conditions like hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) and arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC), which are notable causes of sudden death in athletes. He emphasizes the importance of understanding athletes in terms of their sport, lifestyle, and health goals, advocating for a shared decision-making process in collaboration with athletes' care teams. The session also covers diagnostic challenges and the need for careful screening, particularly for unnoticed conditions such as anomalous coronary arteries. Dr. Baggish advocates for greater collaboration between sports medicine and cardiology to improve disease detection and management practices, while noting that the decision-making process for allowing athletes with heart conditions to participate in sports remains nuanced and necessitates further study. The talk concludes with an extended Q&A session where Dr. Baggish responds to queries about COVID-19 guidelines, cardiac clearance, and the management of various heart conditions.

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Edition 3rd Edition

Related Case 3rd Edition, CASE 07

Topic Cardiac

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3rd Edition, CASE 07

3rd Edition

Cardiac

athlete's heart

physiological adaptations

pathological heart conditions

hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy

diagnostic challenges

anomalous coronary arteries

sports medicine

cardiology collaboration