Echocardiographic assessment of the right ventricle in COVID-19: a systematic review

Cardiac involvement has been frequently reported in COVID-19 as responsible of increased morbidity and mortality. Given the importance of right heart function in acute and chronic respiratory diseases, its assessment in SARS-CoV-2 infected patients may add prognostic accuracy. Transthoracic echocard...

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Autores principales: Ghidini, Simone, Gasperetti, Alessio, Winterton, Dario, Vicenzi, Marco, Busana, Mattia, Pedrazzini, Giovanni, Biasco, Luigi, Tersalvi, Gregorio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Netherlands 2021
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Review Paper
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8295549/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34292433
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10554-021-02353-6
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Sumario:Cardiac involvement has been frequently reported in COVID-19 as responsible of increased morbidity and mortality. Given the importance of right heart function in acute and chronic respiratory diseases, its assessment in SARS-CoV-2 infected patients may add prognostic accuracy. Transthoracic echocardiography has been proposed to early predict myocardial injury and risk of death in hospitalized patients. This systematic review presents the up-to-date sum of literature regarding right ventricle ultrasound assessment. We evaluated commonly used echocardiographic parameters to assess RV function and discussed their relationship with pathophysiological mechanisms involved in COVID-19. We searched Medline and Embase for studies that used transthoracic echocardiography for right ventricle assessment in patients with COVID-19.

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