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Echocardiography in Sports Cardiology

Guest Editor: 
David Oxborough: Liverpool John Moores University, UK

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Echo Research & Practice invited participating authors to submit to our Collection  on Echocardiography in Sports Cardiology. Sports cardiology integrates the prevention, diagnosis, and management of individuals involved in sport and exercise. This transcends other cardiology disciplines including inherited and acquired cardiac conditions; hence, there are important multi-disciplinary and modality applications.

About the collection

Echo Research & Practice invited participating authors to submit to our Collection
on Echocardiography in Sports Cardiology.

Sports cardiology integrates the prevention, diagnosis, and management of individuals involved in sport and exercise. This transcends other cardiology disciplines including inherited and acquired cardiac conditions; hence, there are important multi-disciplinary and modality applications. This collection aims to provide a platform for high-quality publications related to the role of echocardiography in sports cardiology. We welcome submissions from original research, case reports, and review articles that highlight the current and evolving areas of this specialism. These can include but are not restricted to diagnostics, screening, secondary care, and management of those individuals involved in structured exercise.

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  1. Image and performance enhancing drugs (IPEDs) are commonly used in resistance trained (RT) individuals and negatively impact left ventricular (LV) structure and function. Few studies have investigated the impa...

    Authors: Florence Place, Harry Carpenter, Barbara N. Morrison, Neil Chester, Robert Cooper, Ben N. Stansfield, Keith P. George and David Oxborough
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2023 10:19
    Content type: Research Published on:

  2. Pre-participation cardiac screening (PCS) of “Super-League” rugby football league (RFL) athletes is mandatory but may be completed at any time point. The aim of this study was to assess cardiac electrical, str...

    Authors: Lynsey Forsythe, Keith George, Michael Papadakis, Nathan Mill, Matt Daniels and David Oxborough
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2023 10:16
    Content type: Research Published on:

  3. Global longitudinal strain (GLS) and global myocardial work index (GWI) allow early detection of subclinical changes in left ventricular (LV) systolic function. The aim of the study was to investigate the imme...

    Authors: J. Kandels, S. Stöbe, A. Kogel, P. Hepp, H. Riepenhof, J. N. Droste, T. Stoeggl, R. P. Marshall, U. Rudolph, U. Laufs, S. Fikenzer and A. Hagendorff
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2023 10:17
    Content type: Research Published on:

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This Collection welcomes submission of Research Articles. Before submitting your manuscript, please ensure you have read our submission guidelines . Articles for this Collection should be submitted via our submission system, Snapp. During the submission process you will be asked whether you are submitting to a Collection, please select "Echocardiography in Sports Cardiology" from the dropdown menu.

Articles will undergo the journal’s standard peer-review process and are subject to all of the journal’s standard policies. Articles will be added to the Collection as they are published.

The Guest Editors have no competing interests with the submissions which they handle through the peer review process. The peer review of any submissions for which the Guest Editors have competing interests is handled by another Editorial Board Member who has no competing interests.