Sports Cardiology Section

Section Nucleus

Objectives

Chair, Domenico Corrado (IT)
Secretary, Hanne K. Rasmusen (DK)
Chair-Elect, Sanjay Sharma (UK)
Past-Chair, Hein Heidbuchel (BE)

Nucleus members
Alessandro Biffi (IT)
Mats Borjesson (SE)
François Carre (FR)
Josef Niebauer (AT)
Michael Papadakis (UK)
Filippo Quattrini (IT)
Erik Solberg (NO)
Frank Van Buuren (DE)

Cardiac screening recommendations to be published, and implemented in collaboration with the National Cardiac Societies

Education: curriculum on sports cardiology

Science evolution such as ECG project for athletes

Arena safety for spectators and athletes through a survey and implementation. Results now published!

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Educational Resources - Publications

• New! Cardiovascular evaluation of middle-aged/senior individuals engaged in leisure-time sport activities
  Position stand from the sections of exercise physiology and sports cardiology of the European Association of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation 
  Eur J Cardiovasc Prev Rehabil.  June 2011 vol. 18 no. 3 446-458
• Time for action regarding cardiovascular emergency care at sports arenas: a lesson from the arena study
  On behalf of the Sports Cardiology Section of the European Association of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation, doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehq006.
• Recommendations for interpretation of 12-lead electrocardiogram in the athlete
  On behalf of the Sections of Sports Cardiology of the European Association of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation; and the Working Group of Myocardial and Pericardial Disease of the European Society of Cardiology
• Sports Cardiology Library
  Publications recommended by the EACPR Sports Cardiology Section  
• New scientific advances in Sports Cardiology
  EuroPRevent Highlight slideset, M. Borjesson (2009)
• Cardiovascular pre-participation screening of young competitive athletes for prevention of sudden death: proposal for a common European protocol
  Consensus Statement of the Study Group of Sport 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. Eur Heart J 2005;26:516-24. 
• 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 Gorup of Myocardial and Pericardial Diseases of the European Society of Cardiology. Eur Heart J 2005;26:1422-45.

Poster Prize Winners

• EuroPRevent 2011: F. Carre (FR), Athlete's heart and ethnicity : comparisons between Japanese, African-Caribbean and Caucasian professional soccer players
• EuroPRevent 2010: L Maskhulia (GE), Evaluation of left ventricular hypertrophy in  highly trained adolescent athletes
• EuroPRevent 2009: A La Gerche (BE), Changes in pro-inflammatory cytokines and markers of myocardial injury vary with duration and intensity of exercise.
• EuroPRevent 2008: N Panhuyzen-Goedkoop (NL), Preparticipation cardiovascular screening in older athletes is useful
• EuroPRevent 2007: S Basavarajaiah (UK), Prevalence of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in elite athletes

Useful Links

General Population information

• Parental Organisations
  Parent Heart Watch
  Cardiac Risk in the Young