Identification of non-ischaemic fibrosis in male veteran endurance athletes, mechanisms and association with premature ventricular beats

Abstract Left ventricular fibrosis can be identified by late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) in some veteran athletes. We aimed to investigate prevalence of ventricular fibrosis in veteran athletes and associations with cardiac arrhythmia. 50 asymptomatic male en...

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Main Authors: Maryum Farooq, Louise A. E. Brown, Andrew Fitzpatrick, David A. Broadbent, Ali Wahab, Joel R. L. Klassen, Jonathan Farley, Christopher E. D. Saunderson, Arka Das, Thomas Craven, Erica Dall’Armellina, Eylem Levelt, Hui Xue, Peter Kellman, John P. Greenwood, Sven Plein, Peter P. Swoboda
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-09-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-40252-z