Proposed algorithm for return to sports in competitive athletes who have suffered COVID-19

• Evangelos Oikonomou,
• Angelos Papanikolaou,
• Aris Anastasakis,
• Elefterios Bournousouzis,
• Christos Georgakopoulos,
• John Goudevenos,
• Nikolaos Ioakeimidis,
• John Kanakakis,
• George Lazaros,
• Stathis Papatheodorou,
• Adalena Tsatsopoulou,
• Paraskevi Tsonou,
• Georgia Vogiatzi,
• George Panagiotakopoulos,
• Dimitris Tousoulis,
• Charalambos Vlachopoulos

Affiliations

Evangelos Oikonomou

EKKAN (Unit for the Athletes and for Hereditary Cardiovascular Diseases), 1st Department of Cardiology, Hippokration Hospital, Medical School of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens 11527, Greece

Angelos Papanikolaou

EKKAN (Unit for the Athletes and for Hereditary Cardiovascular Diseases), 1st Department of Cardiology, Hippokration Hospital, Medical School of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens 11527, Greece

Aris Anastasakis

Unit of Inherited and Rare Cardiovascular Diseases, Onassis Cardiac Surgery Centre, Greece

Elefterios Bournousouzis

Hellenic National Public Health Organization, Greece

Christos Georgakopoulos

EKKAN (Unit for the Athletes and for Hereditary Cardiovascular Diseases), 1st Department of Cardiology, Hippokration Hospital, Medical School of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens 11527, Greece

John Goudevenos

Department of Cardiology, University of Ioannina Medical School, Greece

Nikolaos Ioakeimidis

EKKAN (Unit for the Athletes and for Hereditary Cardiovascular Diseases), 1st Department of Cardiology, Hippokration Hospital, Medical School of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens 11527, Greece

John Kanakakis

Department of Clinical Therapeutics, University of Athens, Alexandra Hospital, Athens, Greece

George Lazaros

EKKAN (Unit for the Athletes and for Hereditary Cardiovascular Diseases), 1st Department of Cardiology, Hippokration Hospital, Medical School of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens 11527, Greece

Stathis Papatheodorou

Unit of Inherited and Rare Cardiovascular Diseases, Onassis Cardiac Surgery Centre, Greece

Adalena Tsatsopoulou

General Hospital-Health Centre of Naxos, Naxos 84300, Greece

Paraskevi Tsonou

Hellenic National Public Health Organization, Greece

Georgia Vogiatzi

EKKAN (Unit for the Athletes and for Hereditary Cardiovascular Diseases), 1st Department of Cardiology, Hippokration Hospital, Medical School of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens 11527, Greece

George Panagiotakopoulos

Hellenic National Public Health Organization, Greece

Dimitris Tousoulis

EKKAN (Unit for the Athletes and for Hereditary Cardiovascular Diseases), 1st Department of Cardiology, Hippokration Hospital, Medical School of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens 11527, Greece

Charalambos Vlachopoulos

Corresponding author. Prof. Charalambos Vlachopoulos, MD, Vasilissis Sofias 114, PO 115 28, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece. Tel: +30-213-2088099; Fax +30-213-2088676.; EKKAN (Unit for the Athletes and for Hereditary Cardiovascular Diseases), 1st Department of Cardiology, Hippokration Hospital, Medical School of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens 11527, Greece