Anterior T wave inversion in an athlete: Athlete’s heart or cardiac pathology?

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Notes to editor

Dr Joyee Basu, BMBCh, MA (Oxon), MRCP, CRY Cardiology Research Fellow, Cardiology Clinical Academic Group, St George’s, University of London, UK

Dr Michael Papadakis, MD, MRCP, FESC, Senior Lecturer in cardiology, Cardiology Clinical Academic Group, St George’s, University of London, UK

Dr Svetlana Pitman, St George’s, University of London, UK