Myocardial late gadolinium enhancement: prevalence, pattern, and prognostic relevance in marathon runners

• Published in: Radiology Vol. 251; no. 1; p. 50
• Main Authors: Breuckmann, Frank, Möhlenkamp, Stefan, Nassenstein, Kai, Lehmann, Nils, Ladd, Susanne, Schmermund, Axel, Sievers, Burkhard, Schlosser, Thomas, Jöckel, Karl-Heinz, Heusch, Gerd, Erbel, Raimund, Barkhausen, Jörg
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.04.2009
• Subjects: Aged; Causality; Comorbidity; Coronary Artery Disease - diagnosis; Coronary Artery Disease - epidemiology; Gadolinium; Germany - epidemiology; Humans; Incidence; Magnetic Resonance Imaging - statistics & numerical data; Male; Middle Aged; Physical Endurance; Prognosis; Reproducibility of Results; Risk Assessment - methods; Risk Factors; Running - statistics & numerical data; Sensitivity and Specificity; Ventricular Dysfunction, Left - diagnosis; Ventricular Dysfunction, Left - epidemiology; Germany

To prospectively analyze the myocardial distribution of late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) with delayed-enhancement cardiac magnetic resonance (MR) imaging, to compare the prevalence of this distribution in nonprofessional male marathon runners with that in asymptomatic control subjects, and to exami...