What advice do you typically offer competitive athletes with recently diagnosed myocarditis on when to resume competitive sports, and how do often should outpatient imaging and mobile cardiac telemetry monitoring be performed to aid in this decision?

This is an important question because myocarditis is responsible for ≈ 6% of deaths during exertion in young athletes, but the answer is difficult because we do not have good data on how to manage athletes with myocarditis.

1. Even the diagnosis is difficult. It is probably overdiagnosed in athletes be...