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Feasibility and diagnostic performance of including point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) in preparticipation screening of young competitive athletes

Part of: Atrial Septal Defect (ASD) Echocardiography

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 September 2020

Óscar Fabregat-Andrés Open the ORCID record for Óscar Fabregat-Andrés [Opens in a new window] ,
Santiago Pina-Buded  and
Alfonso Amador Valverde-Navarro
Óscar Fabregat-Andrés*
Affiliation:
Cardiology Department, Hospital IMED, Valencia, Spain Anatomy Department, Universitat de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
Santiago Pina-Buded
Affiliation:
Rehabilitation and Physical Medicine Department, General Hospital, Castellón, Spain Medical Department, Villarreal CF, Castellón, Spain
Alfonso Amador Valverde-Navarro
Affiliation:
Anatomy Department, Universitat de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
*
Author for correspondence: Óscar Fabregat Andrés, MD, PhD. Chief of Cardiology, Hospital IMED Valencia, Avenida de la Ilustración, 1, 46100 Burjassot, Valencia, Spain. Tel: +34 963003000; Fax: +34 963864173. E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

Optimal pre-participative screening in young athletes is still controversial. We sought to evaluate the strategy of including point-of-care ultrasound to electrocardiogram. In total, 1188 young competitive athletes were screened in different sports institutions. This proved to be a useful strategy by improving diagnostic performance primarily with respect to detect structural abnormalities and also by minimising positive false cases of electrocardiogram alone.

Keywords

Cardiac screeningyoung athleteselectrocardiogrampoint-of-care ultrasound
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Cardiology in the Young , Volume 30 , Issue 12 , December 2020 , pp. 1970 - 1972
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© The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press

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