You are here

Article Text

Article menu
Download PDFPDF
PostScript
Correspondence
Author response
  1. A Elliott1,
  2. A La Gerche2,3
  1. 1 Discipline of Physiology, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
  2. 2 St Vincent's Hospital Cardiology, Melbourne University, Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia
  3. 3 Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, University Hospital Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
  1. Correspondence to Dr A Elliott, Discipline of Physiology, University of Adelaide, Medical School South, Frome Road, Adelaide, SA 5062, Australia; adrian.elliott{at}adelaide.edu.au

http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2014-094441

Statistics from Altmetric.com

    We are pleased that Dr Leischik1 shares our interest in trying to elucidate the long-term clinical consequences of intense endurance exercise. It is a contentious issue which is the subject of very passionately held views. The adage: “The only person who is wrong is the person who is certain that they are right” seems appropriate when evidence is conflicted and there is no immediate means of definitively proving whether permanent right ventricular (RV) injury can occur. Dr Leischik …

    View Full Text

    Footnotes

    • Competing interests None.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.

    Request Permissions

    If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.

    Copyright information:

    Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. For permission to use (where not already granted under a licence) please go to http://group.bmj.com/group/rights-licensing/permissions

    Linked Articles