Coração de atleta em desportistas deficientes de elite

• Autor(a) principal: Oliveira Filho, Japy Angelini [UNIFESP]
• Data de Publicação: 1997
• Outros Autores: Silva, Antonio Carlos da [UNIFESP], Lira Filho, Edgar Bezerra de [UNIFESP], Luna Filho, Bráulio [UNIFESP], Covre, Silvia Helena [UNIFESP], Lauro, Flávio Antônio Ascânio [UNIFESP], Danucalov, Marcello Arias Dias [UNIFESP], Leite, Wagner Aparecido [UNIFESP], Tuffik, Sérgio [UNIFESP], Andrade, José Lazaro de [UNIFESP], De Paola, Angelo Amato Vincenzo [UNIFESP], Martinez Filho, Eulogio Emílio [UNIFESP]
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNIFESP
• Texto Completo: http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0066-782X1997001200004; http://repositorio.unifesp.br/handle/11600/559
• topic: athlete's heart; disabled athletes; electrocardiogram; exercise test; coração de atleta; atleta deficiente; eletrocardiograma; teste ergométrico; ecocardiograma

PURPOSE: To assess the prevalence of the athlete's, heart syndrome in elite disabled Brazilians athletes. METHODS: Seventy-five athletes, age 27.8±6.7 years, 56 men, with various disabilities (47 physical, 12 visual and 16 cerebral paralysis) underwent clinical, electrocardiographic, vectorcardiographic, ergometric and echocardiographic evaluations. RESULTS: Athlete's heart signs occurred in 33% of the clinical evaluations, in 55% of the electrocardiograms, in 15% of the vectorcardiograms, and in 5% of the echocardiograms. At least one of these signs was presented in 51% of the athletes. There were 2 or more abnormalities in 46% of the athletes and 4 or more signs in 12%. Exercise test was considered not ischemic in 77% of the subjects. There was right bundle branch block in 23% of the tests. CONCLUSION: There were two or more athlete's heart syndrome signs in 46% of Brazilian disabled athletes.