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European Heart Journal © The European Society of Cardiology 2005; all rights reserved
Received November 23, 2004
Revised March 17, 2005
Accepted April 7, 2005

ESC Report

Recommendations for competitive sports participation in athletes with cardiovascular disease

Antonio Pelliccia 1*, Robert Fagard 2, Hans Halvor Bjørnstad 3, Aris Anastassakis 4, Eloisa Arbustini 5, Deodato Assanelli 6, Alessandro Biffi 1, Mats Borjesson 7, François Carrè 8, Domenico Corrado 9, Pietro Delise 10, Uwe Dorwarth 11, Asle Hirth 3, Hein Heidbuchel 12, Ellen Hoffmann 11, Klaus P. Mellwig 13, Nicole Panhuyzen-Goedkoop 14, Angela Pisani 5, Erik E. Solberg 15, Frank van-Buuren 13, Luc Vanhees 2, Experts who contributed to and revised parts of these recommendations , Carina Blomstrom-Lundqvist 16, Asterios Deligiannis 17, Dorian Dugmore 18, Michael Glikson 19, Per Ivar Hoff 3, Andreas Hoffmann 20, Erik Hoffmann 21, Dieter Horstkotte 14, Jan Erik Nordrehaug 3, Jan Oudhof 22, William J. McKenna 23, Maria Penco 24, Silvia Priori 25, Tony Reybrouck 2, Jeff Senden 26, Antonio Spataro 1, and Gaetano Thiene 9

1 National Institute of Sports Medicine, Italian National Olympic Committee, Via dei Campi Sportivi 46, 00197 Rome, Italy
2 Cardiovascular Rehabilitation Unit, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
3 Department of Heart Disease, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway
4 Division of Inherited Cardiovascular Diseases, University of Athens, Athens, Greece
5 Department of Pathological Anatomy, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy
6 Department of Cardiology, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy
7 Department of Medicine, Sahlgrens University Hospital/Östra, Gothenburg, Sweden
8 Unité Biologie et Medicine du Sport, Hopital Pontchavillon, Rennes, France
9 Departments of Cardiology and Pathology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
10 Department of Cardiology, Civil Hospital, Conegliano, Italy
11 Department of Cardiology, University Hospital, Munich, Germany
12 University Hospital Gasthuisberg, Leuven, Belgium
13 Department of Cardiology, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany
14 Department of Cardiology, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
15 Klinikk Ullevål Sykehus, Oslo, Norway
16 Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden
17 Department of Sports Medicine, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece
18 Wellness Medical Center, Stockport, UK
19 Heart Institute, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel
20 Division of Cardiology, University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland
21 Children National Medical Center, Washington DC, USA
22 Cardiac Rehabilitation Center, Bronovo Hospital, Gravenhage, The Netherlands
23 Heart Hospital, University College London, London, UK
24 Department of Cardiology, University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy
25 Molecular Cardiology, Fondazione S. Maugeri, Pavia, Italy
26 Department of Cardiology, Meander Medisch Centrum, Amersfoort, The Netherlands

* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
Antonio Pelliccia, E-mail: ant.pelliccia{at}libero.it



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