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Kamel Shibbani1, Ali Abdulkarim2, Werner Budts3
1Division of Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Iowa Stead Family Children's Hospital, Iowa City, Iowa, USA; University of California-San Diego, Rady Children's Hospital, Department of Pediatrics, San Diego, California, USA.
Abstract:
Sports participation in patients with congenital heart disease is an evolving subject. The American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology released a set of guidelines that advise the type and level of sports participation based primarily on anatomical defects with secondary consideration given to hemodynamic effects. Recently, the European Association of Preventive Cardiology/European Society of Cardiology/Association for European Paediatric and Congenital Cardiology offered a contrasting approach to sports participation that is based on hemodynamic and electrophysiological profiles of each patient, regardless of anatomical consideration. These guidelines are drastically different in their approaches but do have some similarities. In this review, we compare both documents, focusing on the aim, population, classification of sports, and the methodology of making recommendations. This review aims to assist practicing cardiologists in integrating the available published data and recommendations when counseling patients for sports participation.
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