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Hello everyone, here the question is asked about the athlete heart.
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What are the structural characteristics that were identified by baggish and wood that are associated with the athlete's heart? so, athlete's heart are basically the structural characteristics that were identified were the ventricular enlargement and wall thickening.
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Second was that there was hypertrophy, myocardial hypertrophy.
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Third one is that it has atrial dilation.
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So, structurally we can see this is a normal heart and this is a athlete heart.
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Here we can observe the thickening of the ventricles.
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So, the thickening of the ventricles is basically for the, it is a kind of adaptation to cope up with the intense workout, the adaptation as a result of the intense workout and the exercises that the athletes undergo so as to increase the volume of blood that the athlete requires.
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Looking for the various changes that occurs in the, as a result of the athlete heart, the one structural changes we have already done that is increased chamber wall thickness and the cavity size that is for the increase of the, the functional effect of that is that it has got the enhanced diastolic filling and it has got augmentation of the stroke volume that increases the volume of the blood that reaches to the body organs.
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The electrical effects have that it results into the bradycardia, repolarization anomalies and the voltage criteria for the chamber and enlargement.
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So, this is basically a physiological enhancement and it is nothing related to pathology.
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That means it is not a pathological condition or a non -pathological condition...