The Sports Cardiology Team: Personalizing Athlete Care Through a Comprehensive, Multidisciplinary Approach.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To systematically investigate and document the infrastructure, practices, recommendations, and clinical consequences of a structured, organized sports cardiology multidisciplinary team (MDT) for athletes and patients who wish to engage in sports and exercise.

Patients and methods

We established bimonthly sports cardiology MDT meetings, with a permanent panel of experts in sports cardiology, genetics, pediatric cardiology, cardiovascular imaging, electrophysiology, and sports and exercise medicine. Cases were referred nationally or internationally by cardiologists/sports physicians. We retrospectively analyzed all MDT cases (April 10, 2019 through May 13, 2020) and collected clinical follow-up data up to 1 year after the initial review.

Results

A total of 115

SUBMITTER: van Hattum JC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9576626 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature