Oxborough, D;
George, K;
Cooper, R;
Bhatia, R;
Ramcharan, T;
Zaidi, A;
Gati, S;
Prakash, K;
Rakhit, D;
Robinson, S;
et al.
Oxborough, D; George, K; Cooper, R; Bhatia, R; Ramcharan, T; Zaidi, A; Gati, S; Prakash, K; Rakhit, D; Robinson, S; Stuart, G; Forster, J; Ackrill, M; Augustine, D; Malhotra, A; Papadakis, M; Castelletti, S; Pettemerides, V; Ring, L; Kenny, A; Baggish, A; Sharma, S
(2025)
Echocardiography in the cardiac assessment of young athletes: a 2025 guideline from the British Society of Echocardiography (endorsed by Cardiac Risk in the Young).
ECHO RESEARCH AND PRACTICE, 12 (1).
p. 7.
ISSN 2055-0464
https://doi.org/10.1186/s44156-025-00069-0
SGUL Authors: Bhatia, Raghav Tilak Ramcharan, Tristan Malhotra, Aneil Papadakis, Michael Castelletti, Silvia Sharma, Sanjay
![]() |
PDF
Published Version
Available under License Creative Commons Attribution. Download (5MB) |
Abstract
Sudden cardiac death in a young physically active individual or athlete is a rare but tragic event. Pre-participation screening and follow-up investigations are utilised to reduce the risk and occurrence of these events. Echocardiography plays a key role in the cardiac diagnostic pathway and aims to identify underlying inherited or congenital structural cardiac conditions. In 2013 the British Society of Echocardiography and Cardiac Risk in the Young produced a joint guidance document to support echocardiographers in this setting. The document was subsequently updated in 2018, and it is now timely to provide a further update to the guideline drawing on the advances in our knowledge alongside the developments in ultrasound technology within this nuanced area of sports cardiology. Graphical Abstract
Item Type: | Article |
---|---|
Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2025. Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
Keywords: | Athlete, Echocardiography, Guideline, Sport |
SGUL Research Institute / Research Centre: | Academic Structure > Cardiovascular & Genomics Research Institute Academic Structure > Cardiovascular & Genomics Research Institute > Clinical Cardiology |
Journal or Publication Title: | ECHO RESEARCH AND PRACTICE |
ISSN: | 2055-0464 |
Language: | en |
Publisher License: | Creative Commons: Attribution 4.0 |
URI: | https://openaccess.sgul.ac.uk/id/eprint/117409 |
Publisher's version: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s44156-025-00069-0 |
Statistics
Actions (login required)
![]() |
Edit Item |