Publications by authors named "H T Jorstad"
A 62-year-old recreational cyclist presented with transient loss of consciousness and common electrocardiographic findings. Despite absence of left ventricular hypertrophy, multidisciplinary evaluation and a positive family history led to the diagnosis of non-classical Fabry disease. This case emphasizes the added value of multidisciplinary analysis of nonspecific findings to diagnose a rare disease.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: founder variants cause hypertrophic cardiomyopathy leading to heart failure and malignant ventricular arrhythmias. Exercise is typically regarded as a risk factor for disease expression although evidence is conflicting. Stratifying by type of exercise may discriminate low- from high-risk activities in these patients.
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- Current cardiac rehabilitation programs often fail to address the unique needs of older patients with comorbidities or frailty, making home-based exercise programs (HEBCR) a potentially better fit.
- A Delphi study involving Dutch experts aimed to develop tailored recommendations for physiotherapists on implementing HEBCR for older adults, reaching consensus on 89% of the statements discussed.
- Key recommendations include focusing on the patient's perspective, assessing barriers to exercise, and tailoring interventions to enhance balance and strength, thus improving the effectiveness of cardiac rehabilitation for this vulnerable group.
The risk of sports participation in elite athletes with cardiac disease with an indication for implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) therapy is largely unknown. Currently, international guidelines provide restrictive sports advice for such athletes. This case report presents a professional football player who after an episode of syncope and diagnosis of apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy expressed a strong wish to explore the feasibility of returning to elite-level sports.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAims: To quantitatively analyse exercise-induced cardiac remodeling (EICR) data in female athletes.
Methods: This scoping review included from the databases Medline, Embase, and Google Scholar, peer-reviewed original English-language articles on female athlete-populations aged ≥18 years containing data on electrocardiography (ECG), echocardiography or cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR), and excluded athletes with cardiovascular conditions. From the extracted ECG data, we calculated prevalence percentages, and from the imaging data we compared the results with the upper reference limits of the general female population (URL).