Recommendations for participation in leisure-time physical activity and competitive sports of patients with arrhythmias and potentially arrhythmogenic conditions. Part 2: ventricular arrhythmias, channelopathies, and implantable defibrillators
Year: 2020
Type: article
Abstract: This paper belongs to a series of recommendation documents for participation in leisure-time physical activity and competitive sports by the European Association of Preventive Cardiology (EAPC). Together with an accompanying paper on supraventricular arrhythmias, this second text deals specifically with those participants in whom some form of ventricular rhythm disorder is documented, who are diagnosed with an inherited arrhythmogenic condition, and/or who have an implanted pacemaker or cardioverter defibrillator. A companion text on recommendations in athletes with supraventricular arrhythmias is published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology. Since both texts focus on arrhythmias, they are the result of a collaboration between EAPC and the European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA). The documents provide a framework for evaluating eligibility to perform sports, based on three elements, i.e. the prognostic risk of the arrhythmias when performing sports, the symptomatic impact of arrhythmias while performing sports, and the potential progression of underlying structural problems as the result of sports.
Source: EP Europace
Authors: Hein Heidbuchel, Elena Arbelo, Flavio D’Ascenzi, Mats Borjesson, Serge Boveda, Silvia Castelletti, Hielko Miljoen, Lluis Mont, Josef Niebauer, Michael Papadakis, Antonio Pelliccia, Johan Saenen, María Sanz de la Garza, Peter J Schwartz, Sanjay Sharma, Katja Zeppenfeld, Domenico Corrado, EHRA/EAPC Scientific Review Group, Frank R Heinzel, Christian Veltmann, Katja E Odening, Leif-Hendrik Boldt, Wim Anne, Carlo Napolitano, Constantinos Davos, Massimo Piepoli, Alessandro Biffi, Frank van Buuren
Institutions: University of Antwerp, Antwerp University Hospital, Centro de Investigación en Red en Enfermedades Cardiovasculares, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Consorci Institut D'Investigacions Biomediques August Pi I Sunyer, Universitat de Barcelona, University of Siena, University of Gothenburg, Clinique Pasteur, IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Paracelsus Medical University, St George's, University of London, St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Leiden University, Leiden University Medical Center, University of Padua
Language: English
Subfield: Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W3037528483