Quick Tips: Sport and Exercise After COVID-19 Infection – Creating Your Game Plan
ACC's COVID-19 Hub is your resource for "Quick Tips" videos that address emerging and persistent issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
In this video, Sport and Exercise After COVID-19 Infection: Creating Your Game Plan, Michael Scott Emery, MD, FACC, discusses how there is a virtual absence of cardiovascular testing among people with asymptomatic or mild clinical COVID-19, leaving uncertainty in the frequency of cardiac involvement.
He also explains that occult myocarditis may be an underappreciated cause of sudden cardiac arrest in young athletes, and that testing choices should be based on available resources and expertise.
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