Right ventricular injury in critically ill patients with COVID-19: a descriptive study with standardized echocardiographic follow-up.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Patients with COVID-19 admitted to intensive care unit (ICU) may have right ventricular (RV) injury. The main goal of this study was to investigate the incidence of RV injury and to describe the patient trajectories in terms of RV injury during ICU stay.

Methods

Prospective and bicentric study with standardized transthoracic echocardiographic (TTE) follow-up during ICU stay with a maximum follow-up of 28 days. The different patterns of RV injury were isolated RV dilation, RV dysfunction (tricuspid annular plane systolic excursion < 17 mm and/or systolic tricuspid annular velocity < 9.5 cm/s and/or RV fractional area change < 35%) without RV dilation, RV dysfunction with RV dilation and acute cor pulmonale (ACP, RV dilatation with paradoxical septal motion). The diffe

SUBMITTER: Jozwiak M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10805901 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature