Risk factors for myocardial injury and death in patients with COVID-19: insights from a cohort study with chest computed tomography.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

Whether pulmonary artery (PA) dimension and coronary artery calcium (CAC) score, as assessed by chest computed tomography (CT), are associated with myocardial injury in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is not known. The aim of this study was to explore the risk factors for myocardial injury and death and to investigate whether myocardial injury has an independent association with all-cause mortality in patients with COVID-19.

Methods and results

This is a single-centre cohort study including consecutive patients with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 undergoing chest CT on admission. Myocardial injury was defined as high-sensitivity troponin I >20 ng/L on admission. A total of 332 patients with a median follow-up of 12 days were included. There were 68 (20.

SUBMITTER: Ferrante G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7454387 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature