Clinical Trial: Training-induced Increased Left Ventricular Trabeculation

Study Status: Completed
Recruit Status: Completed
Study Type: Observational




Official Title: Increased Left Ventricular Trabeculation in Athletes - a Marker of Left Ventricular Non-compaction or a Physiological Epiphenomenon of Increased Cardiac Preload?

Brief Summary: This project will expand on research conducted by the investigators' group, where the investigators have demonstrated increased LV trabeculation, satisfying currently existing criteria for LV Non-Compaction Cardiomyopathy (LVNC), in groups exposed to high cardiac workloads. To the investigators' knowledge, this will be the first prospective study aiming to demonstrate a direct relationship between high levels of exercise and increased LV trabeculation. This study may add weight to the theory that this entity currently described as LVNC, is a morphological epiphenomenon common to many distinct myocardial remodeling processes associated with increased cardiac preload and afterload and may better define normal adaptive increases in LV trabeculation.