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Pocket Guidelines on Sports Cardiology

ESC Pocket Guidelines

Arrhythmias, General
Antiarrhythmic Pharmacotherapy
Atrial Fibrillation
Anticoagulants
Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy
Invasive Imaging and Functional Assessment
Stroke
Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy
Arrhythmias and Device Therapy

Publication Date: 2020

Chairperson: Antonio Pelliccia & Sanjay Sharma



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Table of Contents

  • Introduction.
  • Definitions of recreational and competitive athletes.
  • Physical activity, leisure exercise and competitive sports participation
    • Characteristics of exercise intervention.
  • Exercise recommendations in individuals with cardiovascular risk factors.
    • Obesity, hypertension, dyslipidaemia or diabetes.
  • Exercise recommendations for aging individuals
  • Exercise programs for leisure-time and competitive sport participation in chronic coronary syndrome
    • Individuals at risk of atherosclerotic coronary artery disease (CAD) and asymptomatic individuals in whom CAD is detected at screening
    • Established (long-standing) chronic coronary syndrome
    • Return to sports after acute coronary syndrome
    • Anomalous origin of coronary arteries
    • Myocardial bridging
  • Exercise recommendations in patients with chronic heart failure
    • Sports participation and return to sports
    • Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction
    • Exercise in individuals after heart transplantation
  • Exercise recommendations in individuals with valvular heart disease
    • Aortic Stenosis
    • Aortic regurgitation.
    • Bicuspid aortic valve.
    • Mitral regurgitation
    • Mitral stenosis
  • Exercise recommendations in individuals with aortopathy.
  • Exercise recommendations in individuals with cardiomyopathies, myocarditis and pericarditis
    • Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
    • Arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy
    • Left ventricular non-compaction
    • Dilated cardiomyopathy
    • Myocarditis
    • Pericarditis
  • Exercise recommendations in individuals with arrhythmias and channelopathies
    • Atrial Fibrillation
    • Supraventricular tachycardia and Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome
    • Premature ventricular contractions and non-sustained ventricular tachycardia
    • Long QT syndrome
    • Brugada syndrome
    • Following device implantation
  •  Exercise recommendations in individuals with adult congenital heart disease
  • List of acronyms and abbreviations