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A critical review of current data highlights the need to re-examine practice guidelines for managing arrhythmias in active youth and the role of nationwide ECG screening for sports participation.
This review discusses the optimal management and risk assessment of young patients with arrhythmic syndromes, particularly concerning sports participation and ECG screening.
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May warrant cautious guideline review for youth arrhythmias; leaves open nationwide ECG screening value pending prospective data.
Important advances in the diagnosis and therapy of various arrhythmic disorders have been made in the last two decades. These, in turn, have necessitated a re-examination of current practice guidelines, with a view to deciding on optimal management of young patients with suspected or proven arrhythmia syndromes and in assessing the risk of adverse arrhythmic events during sport participation. There has also been a concomitant emphasis on identifying individuals at risk by nationwide screening programs using the ECG and excluding them from competitive sport. This review identifies some of these issues, looks at the data critically and offers some suggestions for current care and future research.
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Sreeram et al. (2015) conducted a review in Arrhythmias and arrhythmic syndromes. Diagnosis, therapy, and ECG screening programs was evaluated. A critical review of current data highlights the need to re-examine practice guidelines for managing arrhythmias in active youth and the role of nationwide ECG screening for sports participation.
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