Prevalence and prognosis of structural heart disease among athletes with negative T waves and normal transthoracic echocardiography.
Edoardo ConteFrancesca PizzamiglioMaria Antonietta DessanaiGianluca GuarnieriValentina ArdizzoneMatteo SchillaciAntonio Dello RussoMichela CasellaSaima MushtaqEleonora MelottiDavide MarchettiValentina VolpatoGabrile DragoCarlo GiganteChiarella SforzaAntonio L BartorelliMauro PepiGianluca PontoneClaudio TondoDaniele AndreiniPublished in: Clinical research in cardiology : official journal of the German Cardiac Society (2023)
In a cohort of athletes with negative T waves at ECG, cardiac MRI (and selected use of cardiac CT) enabled the identification of 16 (29.1%) subjects with SHD despite normal transthoracic echocardiography. Deep negative T waves and complex ventricular arrhythmias were the only clinical characteristic associated with SHD diagnosis.