Recommendations for competitive sports participation in athletes with cardiovascular disease

A consensus document from the Study Group of Sports Cardiology of the Working Group of Cardiac Rehabilitation and Exercise Physiology and the Working Group of Myocardial and Pericardial Diseases of the European Society of Cardiology

  • Pelliccia, Antonio
  • Fagard, Robert
  • Bjørnstad, Hans Halvor
  • Anastassakis, Aris
  • Arbustini, Eloisa
  • Assanelli, Deodato
  • Biffi, Alessandro
  • Borjesson, Mats
  • Carrè, François
  • Corrado, Domenico
  • Delise, Pietro
  • Dorwarth, Uwe
  • Hirth, Asle
  • Heidbuchel, Hein
  • Hoffmann, Ellen
  • Mellwig, Klaus P.
  • Panhuyzen-Goedkoop, Nicole
  • Pisani, Angela
  • Solberg, Erik E.
  • van-Buuren, Frank
  • Vanhees, Luc
  • Blomstrom-Lundqvist, Carina
  • Deligiannis, Asterios
  • Dugmore, Dorian
  • Glikson, Michael
  • Hoff, Per Ivar
  • Hoffmann, Andreas
  • Hoffmann, Erik
  • Horstkotte, Dieter
  • Nordrehaug, Jan Erik
  • Oudhof, Jan
  • McKenna, William J.
  • Penco, Maria
  • Priori, Silvia
  • Reybrouck, Tony
  • Senden, Jeff
  • Spataro, Antonio
  • Thiene, Gaetano

  • 1National Institute of Sports Medicine, Italian National Olympic Committee, Via dei Campi Sportivi 46, 00197 Rome, Italy

    2Cardiovascular Rehabilitation Unit, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

    3Department of Heart Disease, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway

    4Division of Inherited Cardiovascular Diseases, University of Athens, Athens, Greece

    5Department of Pathological Anatomy, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

    6Department of Cardiology, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy

    7Department of Medicine, Sahlgrens University Hospital/Östra, Gothenburg, Sweden

    8Unité Biologie et Medicine du Sport, Hopital Pontchavillon, Rennes, France

    9Departments of Cardiology and Pathology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

    10Department of Cardiology, Civil Hospital, Conegliano, Italy

    11Department of Cardiology, University Hospital, Munich, Germany

    12University Hospital Gasthuisberg, Leuven, Belgium

    13Department of Cardiology, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany

    14Department of Cardiology, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    15Klinikk Ullevål Sykehus, Oslo, Norway

    16Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden

    17Department of Sports Medicine, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece

    18Wellness Medical Center, Stockport, UK

    19Heart Institute, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel

    20Division of Cardiology, University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland

    21Children National Medical Center, Washington DC, USA

    22Cardiac Rehabilitation Center, Bronovo Hospital, Gravenhage, The Netherlands

    23Heart Hospital, University College London, London, UK

    24Department of Cardiology, University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy

    25Molecular Cardiology, Fondazione S. Maugeri, Pavia, Italy

    26Department of Cardiology, Meander Medisch Centrum, Amersfoort, The Netherlands

Received 23 November 2004; revised 17 March 2005; accepted 7 April 2005; online publish-ahead-of-print 27 May 2005

This paper was guest edited by Prof. Hugo Saner, Inselspital, Kardiovaskulare Pravention & Rehabilitatiom, Schweizer Herz- und Gefasszentrum, Bern, Switzerland

*Corresponding author. Tel: +39 6 3685 9127; fax: +39 06 36859256. E-mail address: [email protected]

European Heart Journal 26(14):p 1422-1445, July 2005.
Copyright © Copyright Oxford University Press 2005.
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