Transient cardiac dysfunction but elevated cardiac and kidney biomarkers 24 h following an ultra-distance running event in Mexican Tarahumara.
Dirk L ChristensenDiana EspinoRocío Infante-RamírezMónica S Cervantes-BorundaRosa P Hernández-TorresAntonio E Rivera-CisnerosDaniel CastilloKate WestgateDijana TerzicSoren BrageChristian HassagerJens P GoetzeJesper KjaergaardPublished in: Extreme physiology & medicine (2017)
The athletes participating in this study had acute transient cardiac dysfunction as assessed by echocardiography but elevated cardiac and kidney biomarkers at 24 h following a 63-km race with extreme altitude variation.