List of works - André La Gerche

A Modern Definition of the Athlete's Heart-for Research and the Clinic.

scientific article

Abnormal right ventricular relaxation in pulmonary hypertension

scientific article published on June 2015

Accuracy of Echocardiography to Evaluate Pulmonary Vascular and RV Function During Exercise

scientific article published on 21 October 2015

Acute effect of static exercise in patients with aortic regurgitation assessed by cardiovascular magnetic resonance: role of left ventricular remodelling.

scientific article published on 23 August 2016

Acute effect of static exercise on the cardiovascular system: assessment by cardiovascular magnetic resonance

scientific article published on 10 January 2015

Acute glycaemic management before, during and after exercise for cardiac rehabilitation participants with diabetes mellitus: a joint statement of the British and Canadian Associations of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation, the Internationa

scientific article published on 23 December 2020

Asymmetric collimation can significantly reduce patient radiation dose during pulmonary vein isolation.

scientific article published on 17 November 2011

Athlete's heart: the potential for multimodality imaging to address the critical remaining questions.

scientific article published on March 2009

Augmentation of left ventricular torsion with exercise is attenuated with age.

scientific article published on 29 September 2007

Author response

scientific article published on 19 December 2014

Biochemical and functional abnormalities of left and right ventricular function after ultra-endurance exercise

scientific article

Brief recommendations for participation in leisure time or competitive sports in athletes-patients with coronary artery disease: Summary of a Position Statement from the Sports Cardiology Section of the European Association of Preventive Cardiology

scientific article published on 12 September 2019

Can intensive exercise harm the heart? You can get too much of a good thing

scientific article published on September 2014

Cardiac MRI: a new gold standard for ventricular volume quantification during high-intensity exercise

scientific article published on 17 December 2012

Cardiac imaging and stress testing asymptomatic athletes to identify those at risk of sudden cardiac death

scientific article published on September 2013

Cardiac screening of athletes: consensus needed for clinicians on indications for follow-up echocardiography testing

scientific article published on 26 February 2020

Cardiovascular Effects of Performance-Enhancing Drugs

scientific article published on January 2017

Clinical consequences of intense endurance exercise must include assessment of the right ventricle

scientific article published on 01 October 2010

Comparison of frequency of significant electrocardiographic abnormalities in endurance versus nonendurance athletes

scientific article published on 12 February 2014

Defining the interaction between exercise and arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy

scientific article published on 31 December 2014

Determinants of exercise intolerance in breast cancer patients prior to anthracycline chemotherapy

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Diagnosis and Significance of Pulmonary Microvascular Disease in Diabetes

scientific article published on 19 January 2018

Disproportionate exercise load and remodeling of the athlete's right ventricle

scientific article published on 01 June 2011

Drugs in Sport - A Change is Needed, but What?

scientific article published on 01 September 2018

Effect of heart rate on tissue Doppler measures of diastolic function.

scientific article published on August 2007

Effect of respiration on cardiac filling at rest and during exercise in Fontan patients: A clinical and computational modeling study

scientific article published on 13 August 2015

Efficacy of radiofrequency catheter ablation in athletes with atrial fibrillation

scientific article published on 05 June 2011

Exercise and cardiovascular risk in patients with hypertension

scientific article

Exercise as a diagnostic and therapeutic tool for preventing cardiovascular morbidity in breast cancer patients- the BReast cancer EXercise InTervention (BREXIT) trial protocol

scientific article published on 14 July 2020

Exercise capacity in diabetes mellitus is predicted by activity status and cardiac size rather than cardiac function: a case control study.

scientific article published on 23 March 2018

Exercise cardiovascular magnetic resonance reveals reduced cardiac reserve in pediatric cancer survivors with impaired cardiopulmonary fitness

scientific article published on 07 September 2020

Exercise strain rate imaging demonstrates normal right ventricular contractile reserve and clarifies ambiguous resting measures in endurance athletes

scientific article published on 21 December 2011

Exercise-induced cardiac fatigue: the need for speed.

scientific article

Exercise-induced pulmonary oedema in endurance triathletes

scientific article published on 17 November 2015

Exercise-induced right ventricular dysfunction and structural remodelling in endurance athletes

scientific article published on 06 December 2011

Exercise-induced right ventricular dysfunction is associated with ventricular arrhythmias in endurance athletes

scientific article published on 02 June 2015

Fetal echocardiography and pulsed-wave Doppler ultrasound in a rabbit model of intrauterine growth restriction

scientific article published on 29 June 2013

Fluoroscopic ring of pannus within a mechanic mitral valve: a novel sign of calcified pannus infiltration.

scientific article published on 2 July 2014

Improving the physiological realism of experimental models.

scientific article

Increased Flow, Dam Walls, and Upstream Pressure: The Physiological Challenges and Atrial Consequences of Intense Exercise

scientific article published on 17 August 2016

Insulin pump basal adjustment for exercise in type 1 diabetes: a randomised crossover study

scientific article

Interaction between respiration and right versus left ventricular volumes at rest and during exercise: a real-time cardiac magnetic resonance study

scientific article published on 24 January 2014

International Recommendations for Electrocardiographic Interpretation in Athletes.

scientific article

Is exercise good for the right ventricle? Concepts for health and disease.

scientific article published on 29 January 2015

Left ventricular strain and strain rate: characterization of the effect of load in human subjects

scientific article published on 20 December 2009

Left ventricular untwisting is an important determinant of early diastolic function

scientific article published in June 2009

Let's keep running… exercise, basic science and the knowledge gaps

scientific article published on 01 January 2016

Letter by Heidbuchel et al Regarding Article, "Right and Left Ventricular Function and Mass in Male Elite Master Athletes: A Controlled Contrast-Enhanced Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Study"

scientific article published on 01 October 2016

Long-term endurance sport is a risk factor for development of lone atrial flutter.

scientific article

Lower than expected desmosomal gene mutation prevalence in endurance athletes with complex ventricular arrhythmias of right ventricular origin

scientific article published on 04 June 2010

Maximal oxygen consumption is best predicted by measures of cardiac size rather than function in healthy adults

scientific article published in October 2011

Modest agreement in ECG interpretation limits the application of ECG screening in young athletes.

scientific article published on 5 October 2014

No evidence of sustained myocardial injury following an Ironman distance triathlon

scientific article published in January 2004

Physiologic and pathophysiologic changes in the right heart in highly trained athletes

scientific article published on May 2015

Point:Counterpoint.

scientific article

Pre-participation cardiovascular evaluation for athletic participants to prevent sudden death: Position paper from the EHRA and the EACPR, branches of the ESC. Endorsed by APHRS, HRS, and SOLAECE

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Pre-participation cardiovascular evaluation for athletic participants to prevent sudden death: Position paper from the EHRA and the EACPR, branches of the ESC. Endorsed by APHRS, HRS, and SOLAECE.

scientific article

Pulmonary Vascular Function During Exercise: Progressing Toward Routine Clinical Use

scientific article published on 01 April 2017

Pulmonary transit of agitated contrast is associated with enhanced pulmonary vascular reserve and right ventricular function during exercise ⬇️

scientific article published on August 19, 2010

Pulmonary vascular and right ventricular reserve in patients with normalized resting hemodynamics after pulmonary endarterectomy.

scientific article

Pulmonary vascular resistance as assessed by bicycle stress echocardiography in patients with atrial septal defect type secundum.

scientific article published on 25 February 2011

Recommendations for participation in leisure time or competitive sports in athletes-patients with coronary artery disease: a position statement from the Sports Cardiology Section of the European Association of Preventive Cardiology (EAPC)

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Reduced and delayed untwisting of the left ventricle in patients with hypertension and left ventricular hypertrophy: a study using two-dimensional speckle tracking imaging

scientific article published on 31 January 2008

Reduced right ventricular myocardial strain in the elite athlete may not be a consequence of myocardial damage. "Cream masquerades as skimmed milk".

scientific article published on 12 March 2013

Relationship between Inflammatory Cytokines and Indices of Cardiac Dysfunction following Intense Endurance Exercise

scientific article published on 12 June 2015

Reply to Sanchis-Gomar et al.--Undeniable Benefits of Exercise Should Not Preclude Inquiry Into the Mechanisms of Arrhythmias in Athletes

scientific article published on 07 February 2015

Response to letter regarding article, "Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging: a new gold standard for ventricular volume quantification during high-intensity exercise"

scientific article published on 01 May 2013

Right Precordial T-Wave Inversion in Healthy Endurance Athletes Can Be Explained by Lateral Displacement of the Cardiac Apex

scientific article published on 01 March 2015

Right heart structural and functional remodeling in athletes

scientific article published on 19 September 2014

Right ventricular and pulmonary vascular reserve in asymptomatic BMPR2 mutation carriers.

scientific article published on 24 June 2016

Right ventricular fatigue developing during endurance exercise: an exercise cardiac magnetic resonance study.

scientific article published in September 2014

Right ventricular strain rate during exercise accurately identifies male athletes with right ventricular arrhythmias

scientific article published on 01 March 2020

Right ventricular suction: an important determinant of cardiac performance

scientific article published on 26 May 2015

Safety Concerns regarding article: Reliability and Validity of a Self-paced Cardiopulmonary Exercise Test in Post-MI Patients. L. A. Jenkins, A. Mauger, J. Fisher, J. Hopker. Int J Sports Med 2017; 38: 300–306

scientific article published on 13 July 2017

Should pre-participation cardiovascular screening for competitive athletes be introduced in Australia? A timely debate in a sport-loving nation.

scientific article published on 15 September 2010

Signs of RV overload on the athlete's ECG

scientific article published on 05 March 2015

Sildenafil enhances central hemodynamic responses to exercise, but not V̇o2peak, in people with diabetes mellitus

scientific article published on 02 May 2019

Sildenafil improves exercise hemodynamics in Fontan patients

scientific article published on 29 January 2014

Sports Cardiology - A Bona Fide Sub-Specialty

scientific article published on 01 September 2018

Sports Cardiology - Example Illustrative Cases

scientific article published on 18 May 2018

Sports Cardiology: Comprehensive Clinical Care for Athletes and Highly Active Individuals

scientific article published on 07 September 2016

State of the Art Review: Atrial Fibrillation in Athletes.

scientific article

Straining the RV to predict the future

scientific article published in February 2015

Strenuous endurance exercise: is more better for everyone? Our genes won't tell us

scientific article published on 27 December 2010

Stressing the right ventricular-pulmonary vascular unit: beyond pulmonary vascular resistance.

scientific article

Subepicardial delayed gadolinium enhancement in asymptomatic athletes: let sleeping dogs lie?

scientific article published on 29 July 2015

Sudden Cardiac Death in People With Schizophrenia

scientific article published in 2023

Sudden Death and Ventricular Arrhythmias in Athletes: Screening, De-Training and the Role of Catheter Ablation

scientific article published on 19 October 2018

T-wave subtleties in screened athletes: sharpening the lead or whittling the pencil away?

scientific article published on 18 November 2015

The Potential Cardiotoxic Effects of Exercise.

scientific article published on 16 February 2016

The athlete's heart

scientific article published on 01 June 2012

The echocardiographic assessment of the right ventricle: what to do in 2010?

scientific article published on 02 February 2010

The effect of exercise training on cardiometabolic health in men with prostate cancer receiving androgen deprivation therapy: a systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article published on 28 August 2020

The response of the pulmonary circulation and right ventricle to exercise: exercise-induced right ventricular dysfunction and structural remodeling in endurance athletes (2013 Grover Conference series).

scientific article

The right heart in athletes. Evidence for exercise-induced arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy.

scientific article published on June 2012

The right ventricle following prolonged endurance exercise: are we overlooking the more important side of the heart? A meta-analysis

scientific article published on 03 October 2014

To assess exertional breathlessness you must exert the breathless

scientific article

Transit of micro-bubbles through the pulmonary circulation of Thoroughbred horses during exercise

scientific article published on 02 May 2013

Understanding the Mechanism of T-Wave Inversion in Athletes May Be Key to Best Management

scientific article published on 01 December 2015

Unsupervised respiratory signal extraction from ungated cardiac magnetic resonance imaging at rest and during exercise

scientific article published on 08 March 2019

Ventricular arrhythmias associated with long-term endurance sports: what is the evidence?

scientific article published on 01 November 2012

Young Women With Abdominal Obesity Have Subclinical Myocardial Dysfunction

scientific article published on 7 February 2015

List of works by André La Gerche

A Modern Definition of the Athlete's Heart-for Research and the Clinic.

Abnormal right ventricular relaxation in pulmonary hypertension

Accuracy of Echocardiography to Evaluate Pulmonary Vascular and RV Function During Exercise

Acute effect of static exercise in patients with aortic regurgitation assessed by cardiovascular magnetic resonance: role of left ventricular remodelling.

Acute effect of static exercise on the cardiovascular system: assessment by cardiovascular magnetic resonance

Acute glycaemic management before, during and after exercise for cardiac rehabilitation participants with diabetes mellitus: a joint statement of the British and Canadian Associations of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation, the Internationa

Asymmetric collimation can significantly reduce patient radiation dose during pulmonary vein isolation.

Athlete's heart: the potential for multimodality imaging to address the critical remaining questions.

Augmentation of left ventricular torsion with exercise is attenuated with age.

Author response

Biochemical and functional abnormalities of left and right ventricular function after ultra-endurance exercise

Brief recommendations for participation in leisure time or competitive sports in athletes-patients with coronary artery disease: Summary of a Position Statement from the Sports Cardiology Section of the European Association of Preventive Cardiology

Can intensive exercise harm the heart? You can get too much of a good thing

Cardiac MRI: a new gold standard for ventricular volume quantification during high-intensity exercise

Cardiac imaging and stress testing asymptomatic athletes to identify those at risk of sudden cardiac death

Cardiac screening of athletes: consensus needed for clinicians on indications for follow-up echocardiography testing

Cardiovascular Effects of Performance-Enhancing Drugs

Clinical consequences of intense endurance exercise must include assessment of the right ventricle

Comparison of frequency of significant electrocardiographic abnormalities in endurance versus nonendurance athletes

Defining the interaction between exercise and arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy

Determinants of exercise intolerance in breast cancer patients prior to anthracycline chemotherapy

Diagnosis and Significance of Pulmonary Microvascular Disease in Diabetes

Disproportionate exercise load and remodeling of the athlete's right ventricle

Drugs in Sport - A Change is Needed, but What?

Effect of heart rate on tissue Doppler measures of diastolic function.

Effect of respiration on cardiac filling at rest and during exercise in Fontan patients: A clinical and computational modeling study

Efficacy of radiofrequency catheter ablation in athletes with atrial fibrillation

Exercise and cardiovascular risk in patients with hypertension

Exercise as a diagnostic and therapeutic tool for preventing cardiovascular morbidity in breast cancer patients- the BReast cancer EXercise InTervention (BREXIT) trial protocol

Exercise capacity in diabetes mellitus is predicted by activity status and cardiac size rather than cardiac function: a case control study.

Exercise cardiovascular magnetic resonance reveals reduced cardiac reserve in pediatric cancer survivors with impaired cardiopulmonary fitness

Exercise strain rate imaging demonstrates normal right ventricular contractile reserve and clarifies ambiguous resting measures in endurance athletes

Exercise-induced cardiac fatigue: the need for speed.

Exercise-induced pulmonary oedema in endurance triathletes

Exercise-induced right ventricular dysfunction and structural remodelling in endurance athletes

Exercise-induced right ventricular dysfunction is associated with ventricular arrhythmias in endurance athletes

Fetal echocardiography and pulsed-wave Doppler ultrasound in a rabbit model of intrauterine growth restriction

Fluoroscopic ring of pannus within a mechanic mitral valve: a novel sign of calcified pannus infiltration.

Improving the physiological realism of experimental models.

Increased Flow, Dam Walls, and Upstream Pressure: The Physiological Challenges and Atrial Consequences of Intense Exercise

Insulin pump basal adjustment for exercise in type 1 diabetes: a randomised crossover study

Interaction between respiration and right versus left ventricular volumes at rest and during exercise: a real-time cardiac magnetic resonance study

International Recommendations for Electrocardiographic Interpretation in Athletes.

Is exercise good for the right ventricle? Concepts for health and disease.

Left ventricular strain and strain rate: characterization of the effect of load in human subjects

Left ventricular untwisting is an important determinant of early diastolic function

Let's keep running… exercise, basic science and the knowledge gaps

Letter by Heidbuchel et al Regarding Article, "Right and Left Ventricular Function and Mass in Male Elite Master Athletes: A Controlled Contrast-Enhanced Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Study"

Long-term endurance sport is a risk factor for development of lone atrial flutter.

Lower than expected desmosomal gene mutation prevalence in endurance athletes with complex ventricular arrhythmias of right ventricular origin

Maximal oxygen consumption is best predicted by measures of cardiac size rather than function in healthy adults

Modest agreement in ECG interpretation limits the application of ECG screening in young athletes.

No evidence of sustained myocardial injury following an Ironman distance triathlon

Physiologic and pathophysiologic changes in the right heart in highly trained athletes

Point:Counterpoint.

Pre-participation cardiovascular evaluation for athletic participants to prevent sudden death: Position paper from the EHRA and the EACPR, branches of the ESC. Endorsed by APHRS, HRS, and SOLAECE

Pre-participation cardiovascular evaluation for athletic participants to prevent sudden death: Position paper from the EHRA and the EACPR, branches of the ESC. Endorsed by APHRS, HRS, and SOLAECE.

Pulmonary Vascular Function During Exercise: Progressing Toward Routine Clinical Use

Pulmonary transit of agitated contrast is associated with enhanced pulmonary vascular reserve and right ventricular function during exercise ⬇️

Pulmonary vascular and right ventricular reserve in patients with normalized resting hemodynamics after pulmonary endarterectomy.

Pulmonary vascular resistance as assessed by bicycle stress echocardiography in patients with atrial septal defect type secundum.

Recommendations for participation in leisure time or competitive sports in athletes-patients with coronary artery disease: a position statement from the Sports Cardiology Section of the European Association of Preventive Cardiology (EAPC)

Reduced and delayed untwisting of the left ventricle in patients with hypertension and left ventricular hypertrophy: a study using two-dimensional speckle tracking imaging

Reduced right ventricular myocardial strain in the elite athlete may not be a consequence of myocardial damage. "Cream masquerades as skimmed milk".

Relationship between Inflammatory Cytokines and Indices of Cardiac Dysfunction following Intense Endurance Exercise

Reply to Sanchis-Gomar et al.--Undeniable Benefits of Exercise Should Not Preclude Inquiry Into the Mechanisms of Arrhythmias in Athletes

Response to letter regarding article, "Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging: a new gold standard for ventricular volume quantification during high-intensity exercise"

Right Precordial T-Wave Inversion in Healthy Endurance Athletes Can Be Explained by Lateral Displacement of the Cardiac Apex

Right heart structural and functional remodeling in athletes

Right ventricular and pulmonary vascular reserve in asymptomatic BMPR2 mutation carriers.

Right ventricular fatigue developing during endurance exercise: an exercise cardiac magnetic resonance study.

Right ventricular strain rate during exercise accurately identifies male athletes with right ventricular arrhythmias

Right ventricular suction: an important determinant of cardiac performance

Safety Concerns regarding article: Reliability and Validity of a Self-paced Cardiopulmonary Exercise Test in Post-MI Patients. L. A. Jenkins, A. Mauger, J. Fisher, J. Hopker. Int J Sports Med 2017; 38: 300–306

Should pre-participation cardiovascular screening for competitive athletes be introduced in Australia? A timely debate in a sport-loving nation.

Signs of RV overload on the athlete's ECG

Sildenafil enhances central hemodynamic responses to exercise, but not V̇o2peak, in people with diabetes mellitus

Sildenafil improves exercise hemodynamics in Fontan patients

Sports Cardiology - A Bona Fide Sub-Specialty