Competitive Sport Participation Among Athletes With Heart Disease: A Call for a Paradigm Shift in Decision Making

Circulation. 2017 Oct 24;136(17):1569-1571. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.117.029639.

¹ From Cardiovascular Performance Program, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston (A.L.B.); Division of Heart Rhythm Services, Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, and Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, and Windland Smith Rice Sudden Death Genomics Laboratory, Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN (M.J.A.); and Cardiology/Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT (R.L.). abaggish@partners.org.
² From Cardiovascular Performance Program, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston (A.L.B.); Division of Heart Rhythm Services, Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, and Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, and Windland Smith Rice Sudden Death Genomics Laboratory, Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN (M.J.A.); and Cardiology/Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT (R.L.).

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Keywords: athletes; death, sudden, cardiac; decision making; genetic heart diseases; return to sport.

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