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However, chronic, high-intensity exercise sometimes has harmful effects on cardiac health, and pathologic changes, such as myocardial fibrosis, have been observed in endurance athletes. In this case, a highly trained 30-year-old cyclist reported brief palpitations followed by presyncope feeling while exercising. Immediate investigations revealed nonsustained ventricular tachycardia originating from the left ventricle on a stress test associated with myocardial fibrosis of the left ventricle as shown with magnetic resonance imaging. Despite complete cessation of exercise, life-threatening arrhythmia and fibrosis persisted, leading to complete restriction from competition.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Differential Diagnosis:<\/jats:title>\n Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy, myocarditis, postmyocarditis, use of drugs and toxic agents, doping, and systemic disease.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Treatment:<\/jats:title>\n The arrhythmia could not be treated with catheter ablation procedure or drug suppression. Therefore, the athlete was instructed to withdraw completely from sport participation and to have a medical follow-up twice each year.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Uniqueness:<\/jats:title>\n To our knowledge, no other report of left ventricle exercise-induced fibrosis associated with life-threatening arrhythmia in a living young elite athlete exists. Only postmortem evidence supports such myocardial pathologic adaptation to exercise.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Conclusions:<\/jats:title>\n To prevent SCD in young athletes, careful attention must be paid to exercise-related symptoms that suggest a cardiac abnormality because they more often are linked to life-threatening cardiovascular disease.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.4085\/1062-6050-47.2.224","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2017,3,2]],"date-time":"2017-03-02T15:04:04Z","timestamp":1488467044000},"page":"224-227","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["Left Ventricle Fibrosis Associated With Nonsustained Ventricular Tachycardia in an Elite Athlete: Is Exercise Responsible? 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