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Doctor Athanasios Dritsas

Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center, Athens (Greece)

Member of:

European Society of Cardiology

Cardiologist working at the Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center in Athens, Greece as Deputy Director of the Non-Invasive Cardiology Section. Head of Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing and Cardiac Rehabilitation Laboratory. Published a significant number of full papers on the subjects of exercise physiology, cardiopulmonary exercise testing, cardiac rehabilitation, heart failure, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), arrhythmias, left ventricular function. Also developed a particular interest on psychosocial aspects of heart disease and the clinical use of music interventions in cardiac patients (music therapy and music medicine).

Beneficial effects of music listening during treadmill exercise in coronary artery disease patients with a history of percutaneous coronary intervention

Event: ESC Preventive Cardiology 2024

Topic: Stress, Psychosocial and Cultural Aspects of Heart Disease

Session: Optimal exercise modalities for primary and secondary prevention (2)

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Post COVID symptoms of fatigue or dyspnea in young patients are not related to impaired aerobic capacity measured be cardiopulmonary exercise testing

Event: ESC Preventive Cardiology 2024

Topic: Myocarditis

Session: COVID-19 and long COVID

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