24 hour Holter Monitor for TriathlonTrialLawyer tests Doug Landau’s heart function.
Triathlon Trial Lawyer Doug Landau ready for his 24 hour Holter Monitor heart testing
Because competitive athletes such as TriathlonTrialLawyer Doug Landau may expose themselves to an upper limit of physical and mental stress, regular medical and physiological testing is part of their annual program. Today he was fitted out for ambulatory ECG (Holter) monitoring, which is used for trained athletes who hardly break a sweat during the “stress tests” given to most patients by leading cardiovascular specialists and heart doctors. This past fall Landau had undergone extensive cardio- pulmonary testing, including an echocardiagram, stress test, cardiac catheterization and EKG test. Always one to have a low resting pulse and blood pressure, the question was whether there were significant changes upon exercise and activity.
The ABRAMS LANDAU trial lawyer “passed” the holter monitor test, showing almost no irregular heartbeats during a 24-hour period in which he ran, biked and performed a combined bike/run “brick workout,”
This kind of testing in endurance sport athletes and others with any signs or symptoms of breathing or heart rate irregularities is being studied in order to screen and anticipate changes in heart and lung function. According to The American Journal of Sports Medicine, team physicians, coaches, and trainers see athletes as healthy, physically fit, and able to tolerate extremes of physical endurance. “It seems improbable that such athletes may have, on occasion, underlying life-threatening cardiovascular abnormalities. Regular physical activity promulgates cardiovascular fitness and lowers the risk of cardiac disease. However, under intense physical exertion and with a substrate of significant cardiac disease—whether congenital or acquired—athletes may succumb to sudden cardiac death. The deaths of high-profile athletes receive much attention through the national news media, but there are also deaths of other athletes. With repetitive, intense physical exercise, the heart undergoes functional and morphologic changes. Knowledge of those changes may help one identify cardiovascular abnormalities that can cause sudden death from the heart known as an “athlete’s heart.” Click here for a picture of an actual “athlete’s heart.”
