Pre-participation cardiovascular evaluation for athletic participants to prevent sudden death: Position paper from the EHRA and the EACPR, branches of the ESC. Endorsed by APHRS, HRS, and SOLAECE

Affiliations

• ¹ Hospital Clinic, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
• ² Institute of Sport Medicine and Science, Rome, Italy.
• ³ St George's Hospital NHS Trust, London, UK.
• ⁴ Inst of Neuroscience and Physiology and Food, Nutrition and Sport Science and Östra University Hospital, Göteborg, Sweden.
• ⁵ Hopital Pontchaillou, Rennes, France.
• ⁶ Heart Center Hasselt, Hasselt, Belgium.
• ⁷ Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Australia.
• ⁸ Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
• ⁹ The Heart Hospital, University College London, London, UK.
• ¹⁰ IRCCS Fondazione Salvatore Maugeri, Pavia, Italy.
• ¹¹ Instituto do Coração (InCor) do Hospital das Clinicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
• ¹² Hartford Hospital, Hartford, CT, USA.
• ¹³ University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
• ¹⁴ Tel Aviv Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel.
• ¹⁵ Aspetar - Sports Medicine Department, Doha, Qatar.
• ¹⁶ University of Padova, Padova, Italy.
• ¹⁷ University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
• ¹⁸ Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Eskisehir, Turkey.
• ¹⁹ University Hospital in Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden.
• ²⁰ Semmelweis University, Heart and Vascular Center, Budapest, Hungary.
• ²¹ University of Leipzig, Heartcenter, Leipzig, Germany.
• ²² Unidad De Arritmias, Servicio De Cardiologia, Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, Spain.
• ²³ University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy.
• ²⁴ Cardiology Department, Care Hospital, Hyderabad, India.
• ²⁵ Departamento de Electrocardiología, Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia Ignacio Chavez, Tlalpan, Mexico.
• ²⁶ Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Beaumont Health System, Royal Oak, MI, USA.
• ²⁷ University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, USA.
• ²⁸ University Hospital of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
• ²⁹ IRCCS Rehabilitation Medical Center, Cardiology Department, Salvatore Maugeri Foundation, Veruno, Italy.
• ³⁰ Prevention and Sports Medicine, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany.
• ³¹ Studio Medico Sportivo, Pesaro, Italy.
• ³² Sports Medicine, Prevention & Rehabilitation, Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg, Austria.
• ³³ Polichirurgico Hospital G. Da Saliceto, Romagna, Italy.