Short-term echocardiographic follow-up after hospitalization for COVID-19: a focus on early post-acute changes.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Impaired physical functional status is one of the typical long-term sequelae of COVID-19 infection that significantly affects the quality of life and work capacity. Minor changes in cardiac structure and function that are unable to cause the manifestation of overt heart failure may remain undetected in COVID-19 convalescents, at the same time potentially contributing to the persistence of symptoms and development of long COVID syndrome.

Purpose

To study the typical features and short-term dynamics of cardiac remodeling and possible signs of cardiac dysfunction following hospitalization for COVID-19.

Methods

This is a combined cross-sectional and longitudinal cohort study in which 176 hospitalized patients (93 female and 83 male, mean age 53.4 ± 13.6 years)

SUBMITTER: Honchar O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10703357 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature