Sports Cardiology Resources

 Congresses

ESC Congress 2019 together with World Congress of Cardiology

• Taking place 31 August - 4 September 2019 in Paris. See the rehabilitation and sports cardiology sessions.

Resources from previous congresses

• Abstracts, slides and videos from ESC congresses. Access everything on ESC 365.

• ESC TV at EuroPrevent 2019 - ECG challenges in athletes (new recommendations)

Education 

Textbook

• ESC Textbook of Sports Cardiology (March 2019)
  Overview of the detection and treatment of cardiovascular disease in elite athletes and young sports professionals in training and how to prevent it. Access now

Courses

• 30 August 2019 (Paris): EAPC Course on Sports Cardiology. Register now

E-learning courses

• EAPC e-learning sports cardiology courses. Exclusive access for EAPC Ivory, Silver and Gold Members. Not a member yet? Join now

Webinars 

• 5 July: Cardiovascular evaluation in athletes. Register now

• On-demand: Exercise Training and Rehabilitation in Chronic Heart Failure. Watch now

Quizzes

• EAPC quizzes on exercise prescription, sports cardiology and cardiopulmonary exercise testing. Test yourself now

Journals

European Heart Journal 

• Recommendations for participation in competitive and leisure time sport in athletes with cardiomyopathies, myocarditis, and pericarditis: a position statement of the Sports Cardiology Section of the European Association of Preventive Cardiology (EAPC)
     
• Recommendations for participation in competitive sports of athletes with arterial hypertension: a position statement from the sports cardiology section of the European Association of Preventive Cardiology (EAPC) 
      
• Sports cardiology: towards the sweet spot in competitive and leisure exercise 

• Recommendations for participation in leisure time or competitive sports in athletes-patients with coronary artery disease

   

European Heart Journal - Case Reports

• Sudden cardiac death: the finish line as a beginning: a true endurance race in a case report

Cardiovascular Research 

• Exercise and the right ventricle: a potential Achilles’ heel 

European Journal of Preventive Cardiology

• Brief recommendations for participation in competitive sports of athletes with arterial hypertension: Summary of a Position Statement from the Sports Cardiology Section of the European Association of Preventive Cardiology (EAPC)
• Intensive recreational athletes in the prospective multinational ICD Sports Safety Registry: Results from the European cohort
    
• Circumstances of cardiac arrest during sports activity recorded on video    
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EP Europace

• Empowerment of athletes with cardiac disorders: a new paradigm 
      
• Differential presentation of atrioventricular nodal re-entrant tachycardia in athletes and non-athletes
     
• The athlete’s heart is a proarrhythmic heart, and what that means for clinical decision making

European Journal of Heart Failure

• Vigorous physical activity impairs myocardial function in patients with arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy and in mutation positive family members.

• Effects of long‐term endurance and resistance training on diastolic function, exercise capacity, and quality of life in asymptomatic diastolic dysfunction vs. heart failure with preserved ejection fraction.

• Exercise training in patients with ventricular assist devices: a review of the evidence and practical advice. A position paper from the Committee on Exercise Physiology and Training and the Committee of Advanced Heart Failure of the Heart Failure Association.

European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing

• Impact of traditional Greek dancing on jumping ability, muscular strength and lower limb endurance in cardiac rehabilitation programmes

• MOVE-HF: an internet-based pilot study to improve adherence to exercise in patients with heart failure

• The effect of a supervised exercise training programme on sleep quality in recently discharged heart failure patients 
    
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European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Imaging

• Left ventricular phenotype in the athlete’s heart: what makes the difference?
     
• Bicuspid aortic valve behaviour in elite athletes
    
• University athletes and changes in cardiac geometry: insight from the 2015 Gwangju Summer Universiade 

European Heart Journal - Acute Cardiovascular Care

• The value of predischarge exercise ECG testing in chest pain patients in the era of high-sensitivity troponins

• Incremental value of high-frequency QRS analysis for diagnosis and prognosis in suspected exercise-induced myocardial ischaemia
  
  
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 Daily Practice Tools

• EXPERT Tool: A digital, interactive decision support tool for exercise prescription. 

Community

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