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Antonio Pelliccia is affiliated with the Italian National Olympic Committee in Italy and has a significant research footprint in the field of medicine, particularly focusing on cardiology and cardiovascular medicine. Their work centers on the cardiovascular effects of exercise, cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias, cardiovascular and exercise physiology, cardiac imaging and diagnostics, cardiac arrhythmias and treatments, cardiomyopathy and myosin studies, as well as cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies.

Their recent publications include:

  • 2020 ESC Guidelines on sports cardiology and exercise in patients with cardiovascular disease, 2020, European Heart Journal
  • Diagnosis of arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy: The Padua criteria, 2020, International Journal of Cardiology
  • The 'Ten Commandments' for the 2020 ESC Guidelines on Sports Cardiology and Exercise in Patients with Cardiovascular Disease, 2020, European Heart Journal
  • Recommendations for participation in competitive sport in adolescent and adult athletes with Congenital Heart Disease (CHD): position statement of the Sports Cardiology & Exercise Section of the European Association of Preventive Cardiology (EAPC), the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Working Group on Adult Congenital Heart Disease and the Sports Cardiology, Physical Activity and Prevention Working Group of the Association for European Paediatric and Congenital Cardiology (AEPC), 2020, European Heart Journal
  • Proposed diagnostic criteria for arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy: European Task Force consensus report, 2023, International Journal of Cardiology

Antonio Pelliccia collaborates frequently with a number of co-authors, including:

  • Viviana Maestrini
  • Maria Rosaria Squeo
  • Giuseppe Di Gioia
  • Erika Lemme
  • Sara Monosilio

Their work has been published predominantly in these venues:

  • European Journal of Preventive Cardiology (23 publications)
  • International Journal of Cardiology (12 publications)
  • The Journal of Sports Medicine and Physical Fitness (7 publications)
  • European Heart Journal (6 publications)
  • High Blood Pressure & Cardiovascular Prevention (5 publications)

Main fields of study for Antonio Pelliccia include Medicine, with a strong focus on subfields such as cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, complementary and alternative medicine, orthopedics and sports medicine, and pulmonary and respiratory medicine.

Best Publications

  • Cardiovascular pre-participation screening of young competitive athletes for prevention of sudden death: proposal for a common European protocol Consensus Statement of the Study Group of Sport Cardiology of the Working Group of Cardiac Rehabilitation and Exercise Physiology and the Working Group of Myocardial and Pericardial Diseases of the European Society of Cardiology

    Domenico Corrado;Antonio Pelliccia;Hans Halvor Bjørnstad;Luc Vanhees

  • The upper limit of physiologic cardiac hypertrophy in highly trained elite athletes.

    Antonio Pelliccia;Barry J. Maron;Antonio Spataro;Michael A. Proschan

  • Recommendations for competitive sports participation in athletes with cardiovascular disease : a consensus document from the study group of sports cardiology of the working group of cardiac rehabilitation and exercise physiology and the working group of myocardial and pericardial diseases of the european society of cardiology

    Antonio Pelliccia;Robert Fagard;Hans Halvor Bjørnstad;Aris Anastassakis

  • 2020 ESC Guidelines on sports cardiology and exercise in patients with cardiovascular disease.

    Antonio Pelliccia;Sanjay Sharma;Sabiha Gati;Maria Bäck

  • Exercise and Acute Cardiovascular Events Placing the Risks Into Perspective: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association Council on Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Metabolism and the Council on Clinical Cardiology

    Paul D. Thompson;Barry A. Franklin;Gary J. Balady

  • Recommendations for interpretation of 12-lead electrocardiogram in the athlete

    Domenico Corrado;Antonio Pelliccia;Hein Heidbuchel;Sanjay Sharma

  • The heart of trained athletes: cardiac remodeling and the risks of sports, including sudden death.

    Barry J. Maron;Antonio Pelliccia

  • Electrocardiographic interpretation in athletes: the ‘Seattle Criteria’

    Jonathan A Drezner;Michael John Ackerman;Jeffrey Anderson;Euan Ashley

  • Clinical Significance of Abnormal Electrocardiographic Patterns in Trained Athletes

    Antonio Pelliccia;Barry J. Maron;Franco Culasso;Fernando M. Di Paolo

  • Physiologic Left Ventricular Cavity Dilatation in Elite Athletes

    A Pelliccia;F Culasso;F M Di Paolo;B J Maron

  • International recommendations for electrocardiographic interpretation in athletes

    Sanjay Sharma;Jonathan A. Drezner;Aaron Baggish;Michael Papadakis

  • Recommendations for Physical Activity and Recreational Sports Participation for Young Patients With Genetic Cardiovascular Diseases

    Barry J. Maron;Bernard R. Chaitman;Michael J. Ackerman;Antonio Bayés De Luna

  • Treatment of Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy/Dysplasia: An International Task Force Consensus Statement.

    Domenico Corrado;Thomas Wichter;Mark S. Link;Richard N.W. Hauer

  • Prevalence and clinical significance of left atrial remodeling in competitive athletes.

    Antonio Pelliccia;Barry J. Maron;Fernando M. Di Paolo;Alessandro Biffi

  • Morphology of the "athlete's heart" assessed by echocardiography in 947 elite athletes representing 27 sports.

    Paolo Spirito;Antonio Pelliccia;Michael A. Proschan;Maristella Granata

  • The International Olympic Committee (IOC) Consensus Statement on periodic health evaluation of elite athletes March 2009

    Arne Ljungqvist;Peter Jenoure;Lars Engebretsen;Juan Manuel Alonso

  • Cardiac Disease in Young Trained Athletes Insights Into Methods for Distinguishing Athlete’s Heart From Structural Heart Disease, With Particular Emphasis on Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

    Barry J. Maron;Antonio Pelliccia;Paolo Spirito

  • Remodeling of Left Ventricular Hypertrophy in Elite Athletes After Long-Term Deconditioning

    Antonio Pelliccia;Barry J. Maron;Rosanna De Luca;Fernando M. Di Paolo

  • Athlete's Heart in Women: Echocardiographic Characterization of Highly Trained Elite Female Athletes

    Antonio Pelliccia;Barry J. Maron;Franco Culasso;Antonio Spataro

  • Recommendations for participation in competitive and leisure time sport in athletes with cardiomyopathies, myocarditis, and pericarditis: position statement of the Sport Cardiology Section of the European Association of Preventive Cardiology (EAPC)

    Antonio Pelliccia;Erik Ekker Solberg;Michael Papadakis;Paolo Emilio Adami

Frequent Co-Authors

Domenico Corrado
Domenico Corrado University of Padua
Barry J. Maron
Barry J. Maron University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Sanjay Sharma
Sanjay Sharma St George's, University of London
Gaetano Thiene
Gaetano Thiene University of Padua
Hein Heidbuchel
Hein Heidbuchel University of Antwerp
Cristina Basso
Cristina Basso University of Padua
Natesa G. Pandian
Natesa G. Pandian Tufts Medical Center
William J. McKenna
William J. McKenna University College London
Paul D. Thompson
Paul D. Thompson Hartford Hospital
Massimo F. Piepoli
Massimo F. Piepoli Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies

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