Journal
PACE-PACING AND CLINICAL ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY
Volume 43, Issue 8, Pages 882-890Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/pace.14001
Keywords
athlete's heart; electrocardiography; preparticipation screening; sports cardiology; sudden cardiac death
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The electrocardiogram (ECG) is cheap and widely available but its use as a screening tool for early identification of athletes with a cardiac disease at risk of sudden cardiac death is controversial because of presumed low specificity. In the last decade, several efforts have been made to improve the distinction between physiological and pathological ECG findings in the athlete, leading to continuous evolution of the interpretation criteria. The most recent 2017 International criteria grouped ECG changes into three categories: normal, borderline, and abnormal. Borderline findings warrant further investigations only when two or more are present while abnormal changes should always be considered as the sign of a possible underlying disease. This review encompasses the evolution of the athlete's ECG interpretation criteria and highlights areas of uncertainty that will need to be addressed by further studies.
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