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DETRAINING-RELATED CHANGES IN LEFT VENTRICULAR WALL THICKNESS AND LONGITUDINAL STRAIN IN A YOUNG ATHLETE LIKELY TO HAVE HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHYKeywords: Athlete's heart , detraining , echocardiography , hypertrophic cardiomyopathy , left ventricular hypertrophy , myocardial function , strain echocardiography Abstract: One of the diagnostic criteria in order to differentiate between physiological and pathological left ventricular hypertrophy is the wall thickness reduction after at least 3-month detraining period, which is considered a marker of the athlete's heart. This report describes detraining-related regression of LV hypertrophy and improvement in myocardial deformation in a junior athlete likely to have hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
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