Echocardiographic Manifestations in COVID-19: A Review.
Heart Lung Circ
; 30(8): 1117-1129, 2021 Aug.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1101247
ABSTRACT
COVID-19 has rapidly spread around the world and threatened global health. Although this disease mainly affects the respiratory system, there is increasing evidence that SARS-CoV-2 also has effects on the cardiovascular system. Echocardiography is a valuable tool in the assessment of cardiovascular disease. It is cost-effective, widely available and provides information that can influence management. Given the risk of personnel infection and equipment contamination during echocardiography, leading world societies have recommended performing echocardiography only when a clinical benefit is likely, favouring focussed evaluations and using smaller portable equipment. In the past months, multiple reports have described a wide pattern of echocardiographic abnormalities in patients with COVID-19. This review summarises these findings and discusses the possible mechanisms involved.
Keywords
Full text:
Available
Collection:
International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Echocardiography
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Ventricular Dysfunction, Right
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Ventricular Dysfunction, Left
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COVID-19
Type of study:
Experimental Studies
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Observational study
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Prognostic study
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Randomized controlled trials
Topics:
Long Covid
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Heart Lung Circ
Journal subject:
Vascular Diseases
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Cardiology
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Article
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