Recommendations for participation in leisure-time physical activity and competitive sports in patients with arrhythmias and potentially arrhythmogenic conditions Part I: Supraventricular arrhythmias and pacemakers.

Abstract

This document by the Study Group on Sports Cardiology of the European Society of Cardiology extends on previous recommendations for sports participation for competitive athletes by also incorporating guidelines for those who want to perform recreational physical activity. For different supraventricular arrhythmias and arrhythmogenic conditions, a description of the relationship between the condition and physical activity is given, stressing how arrhythmias can be influenced by exertion or can be a reflection of the (patho)physiological cardiac adaptation to sports participation itself. The following topics are covered in this text: sinus bradycardia; atrioventricular nodal conduction disturbances; pacemakers; atrial premature beats; paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia without pre-excitation; pre-excitation, asymptomatic or with associated arrhythmias (i.e. Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome); atrial fibrillation; and atrial flutter. A related document discusses ventricular arrhythmias, channelopathies and implantable cardioverter defibrillators.

• Authors: Hein Heidbüchel, Nicole Panhuyzen-Goedkoop, Domenico Corrado, Ellen Hoffmann, Allessandro Biffi, Pietro Delise, Carina Blomstrom-Lundqvist, Luc Vanhees, Per Ivarhoff, Uwe Dorwarth, Antonio Pelliccia, Study Group on Sports Cardiology of the European Association for Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation
• Journal: European journal of cardiovascular prevention and rehabilitation : official journal of the European Society of Cardiology, Working Groups on Epidemiology & Prevention and Cardiac Rehabilitation and Exercise Physiology (Eur J Cardiovasc Prev Rehabil) Vol. 13 Issue 4 Pg. 475-84 (Aug 2006) ISSN: 1741-8267 [Print] England
• PMID: 16874135 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Practice Guideline)

Topics

• Cardiac Pacing, Artificial (standards)
• Humans
• Leisure Activities
• Motor Activity (physiology)
• Pacemaker, Artificial (standards)
• Sports (physiology)
• Tachycardia, Supraventricular (physiopathology, rehabilitation)