CONSENSUS DOCUMENT   

Medicina dello Sport 2005 September;58(3):157-91

Copyright © 2005 EDIZIONI MINERVA MEDICA

language: English

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 A. ¹, Fagard R. ², Bjørnstad H. H. ³, Anastassakis A. ⁴, Arbustini E. ⁵, Assanelli D. ⁶, Biffi A. ¹, Borjesson M. ⁷, Carrè F. ⁸, Corrado D. ⁹, Delise P. ¹⁰, Dorwarth U. ¹, Hirth A. ³, Heidbuchel H. ¹², Hoffmann E. ¹¹, Mellwig K. P. ¹³, Panhuyzen-Goedkoop N. ¹⁴, Pisani A. ⁵, Solberg E. ¹⁵, van-Buuren F. ¹³, Vanhees L. ², Blomstrom-Lundqvist C. ¹⁶, Deligiannis A. ¹⁷, Dugmore D. ¹⁸, Glikson M. ¹⁹, Hoff P. I. ³, Hoffmann A. ²⁰, Horstkotte D. ¹⁴, Nordrehaug J. E. ³, Oudhof J. ²¹, McKenna W. J. ²², Penco M. ²³, Priori S. ²⁴, Reybrouck T. ², Senden P. J. F. ²⁵, Spataro A. ¹, Thiene G. ⁹

¹ National Institute of Sports Medicine, Rome, Italy; ² Cardiovascular Rehabilitation Unit, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; ³ Dept. Heart Disease, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway; ⁴ Division of Inherited Cardiovascular Diseases, University of Athens, Greece; ⁵ Dept. of Pathological Anatomy, University of Pavia, Italy; ⁶ Dept. of Cardiology, University of Brescia, Italy; ⁷ Dept of Medicine, Sahlgrens University Hospital/Östra, Gothenburg, Sweden; ⁸ Unité Biologie et Medicine du Sport, Hopital Pontchavillon, Rennes, France; ⁹ Depts of Cardiology and Pathology, University of Padova, Italy; ¹⁰ Dept. of Cardiology, Civil Hospital, Conegliano, Italy; ¹¹ Dept. of Cardiology, University Hospital, Munich, Germany; ¹² University Hospital Gasthuisberg, Leuven, Belgium, 13 Dept. Cardiology. Bad Oeynhausen, Germany; ¹⁴ Dept. Cardiology, Nijmegen,The Netherlands; ¹⁵ Klinikk Ullevål Sykehus,Oslo, Norway; ¹⁶ Dept. of Cardiology, University Hospital Uppsala, Sweden; ¹⁷ Med. Sports Medicine, Aristotele University, Thessaloniki, Greece; ¹⁸ Wellness Medical Center, Stockport, UK; ¹⁹ Heart Institute, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel 20 Division of Cardiology, University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland 21 Cardiac Rehabilitation Center, Bronovo Hospital, Gravenhage, The Netherlands 22 Heart Hospital, University College London, UK; ²³ Dept of Cardiology, University of L’Aquila, Italy; ²⁴ Molecular Cardiology, Fondazione S.Maugeri, Pavia, Italy (SGP); ²⁵ Dept. of Cardiology, Meander Medisch Centrum, Amersfoort, The Netherlands