Can a child who has been operated on for congenital heart disease participate in sport and in which kind of sport?

Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 234-238

  Picchio, Fernando M ^a   Giardini, Alessandro ^a   Bonvicini, Marco ^a   Gargiulo, Gaetano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Arrhythmia; Cardiac surgery; Congenital heart disease; Exercise

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD GROWTH; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TEST; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; ISOMETRIC EXERCISE; METABOLISM; PATIENT COUNSELING; REVIEW; SPORT; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION;

CHILD; EXERCISE TEST; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; SPORTS;

EID: 33646458574     PISSN: 15582027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2459/01.JCM.0000219314.66762.f7     Document Type: Review

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