DCM versus athletes heart

Hi guys,

Hope you don’t mind me posting as starting my journey. I’m 32 years old soccer player who had a black out last year and ended up in hospital. The cause of black out is likely to be mituaration syncope. However, several tests revealed dilated heart and low ejection fraction. I had a V02 test a month prior and got 56 so fit.

I detrained for four months to see if measurements would reduce which they did and I returned to soccer playing several games. However, I recently got a call to say cardiologists reviewed my cardiac mri and I am starting ace inhibitors for the rest of my life. Ejection fraction was 45.

This was out of the blue and still allowed to play football but I don’t know if I’m diagnosed with DCM now or not.

Has anyone had anything similar?