Pocket Guidelines on Sports Cardiology

Publication Date: 2020
Chairperson: Antonio Pelliccia & Sanjay Sharma

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