SCUBA Diving in Adult Congenital Heart Disease

Conventionally, scuba diving has been discouraged for adult patients with congenital heart disease (ACHD). This restrictive sports advice is based on expert opinion in the absence of high-quality diving-specific studies. However, as survival and quality of life in congenital heart disease (CHD) pati...

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Autores principales: Kauling, Robert M., Rienks, Rienk, Cuypers, Judith A. A. E., Jorstad, Harald T., Roos-Hesselink, Jolien W.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2023
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Review
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9863475/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36661915
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcdd10010020
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description Conventionally, scuba diving has been discouraged for adult patients with congenital heart disease (ACHD). This restrictive sports advice is based on expert opinion in the absence of high-quality diving-specific studies. However, as survival and quality of life in congenital heart disease (CHD) patients have dramatically improved in the last decades, a critical appraisal whether such restrictive sports advice is still applicable is warranted. In this review, the cardiovascular effects of diving are described and a framework for the work-up for ACHD patients wishing to engage in scuba diving is provided. In addition, diving recommendations for specific CHD diagnostic groups are proposed.
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spelling pubmed-98634752023-01-22 SCUBA Diving in Adult Congenital Heart Disease Kauling, Robert M. Rienks, Rienk Cuypers, Judith A. A. E. Jorstad, Harald T. Roos-Hesselink, Jolien W. J Cardiovasc Dev Dis Review Conventionally, scuba diving has been discouraged for adult patients with congenital heart disease (ACHD). This restrictive sports advice is based on expert opinion in the absence of high-quality diving-specific studies. However, as survival and quality of life in congenital heart disease (CHD) patients have dramatically improved in the last decades, a critical appraisal whether such restrictive sports advice is still applicable is warranted. In this review, the cardiovascular effects of diving are described and a framework for the work-up for ACHD patients wishing to engage in scuba diving is provided. In addition, diving recommendations for specific CHD diagnostic groups are proposed. MDPI 2023-01-04 /pmc/articles/PMC9863475/ /pubmed/36661915 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcdd10010020 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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