We're delighted to announce that leading Consultant Sports Cardiologist, Professor Aneil Malhotra, is now offering clinics at the OrthTeam Centre. 

Professor Malhotra has more than 15 years of cardiology experience and has been the lead cardiologist for a number of elite sports teams across football, cycling, cricket and rugby, and also regularly involved in the cardiac care of international athletes.

Professor Malhotra graduated from the University of Cambridge (Emmanuel College) and having spent time at MIT and Harvard University, he undertook his Foundation training in Cambridge (UK) and Papworth before moving to Oxford to continue his specialist training in cardiology. Along the way, he completed a Masters in Medical Leadership at the Royal College of Physicians achieving a distinction. He completed his PhD in inherited heart diseases and sports cardiology at St. George’s University of London.

Aneil is a member of the sports cardiology nucleus for the European Association of Preventative Cardiology, and a Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology. He has over 100 peer-reviewed publications and has co-authored and contributed to books in cardiology and medicine. He leads a programme of research based at the Institute of Sport, Manchester Metropolitan University, around identifying predictors of sudden cardiac death in athletes. He is also the Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY) cardiologist for the north of England.

He is heading up the Sports Cardiology Service at the OrthTeam Centre, in collaboration with our Sport and Exercise Medicine, and Medical Imaging Consultants. The team will also work with electrophysiologists, exercise physiologists, cardiovascular surgeons, sports psychologists, and geneticists at Spire Manchester Hospital, and our research affiliates.

Sports Cardiology Service

What we offer between the OrthTeam Centre, and our partners, Spire Manchester Hospital:

• Pre-participation cardiac evaluation to assess heart health before an athlete returns to an exercise.
• Advice on undertaking exercise safely in people affected by heart disease.
• Cardiovascular performance optimisation that includes strategies to enhance athletic performance.
• Return-to-play evaluation to determine when it is safe for an athlete to return to sport after a cardiac event, or heart surgery.
• Evaluation of exercise intolerance, or decreased athletic performance to identify underlying heart conditions that may affect performance.
• Comprehensive cardiovascular screening and risk assessment to evaluate overall heart health and identify potential risk factors

Sports Cardiology Assessment 

Professor Aneil Malhotra will undertake an initial consultation with an athlete to understand the level of heart risk during exercise/performance.

If diagnostics tests are required, these will be tailored to the individual athlete's needs and may include:

• Electrocardiogram (ECG) to check the rhythm of your heart.
• Echocardiogram (echo) which is an ultrasound scan to check the structures of your heart.
• Exercise stress test which checks how your heart works during physical activity.
• Cardiac MRI, which is a more detailed evaluation of your heart’s structures. This can identify if there is scarring in the heart muscle.
• Ambulatory ECG monitoring to assess the electrical tracing of the heart in your own environment at home and while playing sports.
• Diagnosis and treatment of heart conditions like arrhythmias and structural heart problems.
• Support athletes with conditions that strain the heart, like diabetes, and sport and exercise hypertension.