In-vivo evidence of systemic endothelial vascular dysfunction in COVID-19.
Int J Cardiol
; 345: 153-155, 2021 12 15.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1474609
ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
Endothelial dysfunction is one of the underlying mechanisms to vascular and cardiac complications in patients with COVID-19. We sought to investigate the systemic vascular endothelial function and its temporal changes in COVID-19 patients from a non-invasive approach with reactive hyperemia peripheral arterial tonometry (PAT).METHODS:
This is a prospective, observational, case-control and blinded study. The population was comprised by 3 groups patients investigated during acute COVID-19 (group 1), patients investigated during past COVID-19 (group 2), and controls 11 matched to COVID-19 patients by demographics and cardiovascular risk factors (group 3). The natural logarithmic scaled reactive hyperemia index (LnRHI), a measure of endothelium-mediated dilation of peripheral arteries, was obtained in all the participants and compared between study groups.RESULTS:
144 participants were enrolled (72 COVID-19 patients and 72 matched controls). Median time from COVID-19 symptoms to PAT assessment was 9.5 and 101.5 days in groups 1 and 2, respectively. LnRHI was significantly lower in group 2 compared to both group 1 and controls (0.53 ± 0.23 group 2 vs. 0.72 ± 0.26 group 1, p = 0.0043; and 0.79 ± 0.23 in group 3, p < 0.0001). In addition, within group 1, it was observed a markedly decrease in LnRHI from acute COVID-19 to post infection stage (0.73 ± 0.23 vs. 0.42 ± 0.26, p = 0.0042).CONCLUSIONS:
This study suggests a deleterious effect of SARS-CoV-2 infection on systemic vascular endothelial function. These findings open new venues to investigate the clinical implication and prognostic role of vascular endothelial dysfunction in COVID-19 patients and post-COVID syndrome using non-invasive techniques.Keywords
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Collection:
International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Vascular Diseases
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COVID-19
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Hyperemia
Type of study:
Cohort study
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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:
Int J Cardiol
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Article
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