Work in the Cardiology discipline at Unicamp's HC aims to better understand the hypertrophy, with or without fibrosis, of the hearts of active athletes, and those who are planning to be without training due to a musculoskeletal injury for at least two months. The clinical research intends to investigate in both groups of patients, how the process of hypertrophy occurs in the heart muscle of athletes, investigating whether or not in this group of individuals, heart hypertrophy is accompanied by fibrosis.
The study will be led by professor Otávio Rizzi Coelho-Filho, from the Cardiology discipline at FCM and is financed by Fapesp, CNPq and Faepex. Volunteer athletes will initially be evaluated with a clinical examination and electrocardiogram (ECG) at rest. Patients with signs of left ventricular overload on the ECG will be included in the study for a new phase of evaluations through blood tests, magnetic resonance imaging of the heart, echocardiography and ergospirometric examination.
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