Sports cardiology. From diagnosis to clinical management From Diagnosis to Clinical Management

This specialized reference textbook presents the physiological and pathophysiological aspects of cardiovascular diseases affecting the athlete population. The first part is a systematic explanation of the non-invasive and invasive diagnostic techniques used in cardiology. The second part examines the clinical approach to a great majority of the cardiological problems that involve the athlete population. All of the fields discussed in this textbook are treated from physiological and pathophysiological viewpoints, including the clinical and legal implications of athletes affected by diagnosed or unsuspected cardiovascular diseases. As such, this book is a particularly useful contribution to the literature for health care professionals, especially cardiologists (also fellows) and sports medicine physicians, providing them with the knowledge to make critical decisions regarding eligibility, thus preventing tragic events, and especially sudden death the most crucial event in sport.

Part I Cardiovascular Diagnostics.- 1 Medical History and Physical Examination in Sports Medicine.- 2 Electrocardiographic Signal Analysis.- 3 Ecocardiography in the Athletes.- 4 Vascular ultrasound.- 5 Coronary CT.- 6 Cardiac MRI.- 7 Myocardial Radionuclide Imaging.- 8 Cardiac catheterization.- 9 Coronary Artery Angiography.- 10 Endomyocardial Biopsy.- 11 Integrated Imaging.- 12 Intracardiac Electrophysiologic Study.- Part II Clinical Cardiology in the Athletes.- 13 Syncope.- 14 Epidemiology, Classification and Description of Cardiac Arrhythmias.- 15 Preeccitation Syndromes.- 16 Electrophysiological Study in the Athletes.- 17 Catheter Ablation in the Athletes.- 18 Valvular Heart Diseases in the Athletes.- 19 Cardiomyopathies in the Athletes.- 20 Myocarditis and Pericarditis in the Young Athletes.- 21 Non Structural Causes of Sudden Death.- 22 Can  we Finally Prevent Sudden Death in Athletes?.- 23 Peripheral Vascular Disease in Athletes.- 24 Arterial Hypertension in the Atlete.- 25Sports Practice in Patients with Chronic Ischemic Heart Disease. Focus on Patients Treated with Coronary Angioplasty and Stenting.- 26 Sports Practice in Congenital Heart Diseases.- 27 Sports Practice in Individuals with Cardiac Pacemakers and Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators.- 28 Other Clinical Indications: Sports Practice in Individuals with Patent Foramen Ovale and in Patients Undergoing Non-Coronary Cardiovascular Interventions.- 29 Cardiologic Rehabilitation.