Dataset Information

High Prevalence of Pericardial Involvement in College Student Athletes Recovering From COVID-19.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This study sought to explore the spectrum of cardiac abnormalities in student athletes who returned to university campus in July 2020 with uncomplicated coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

Background

There is limited information on cardiovascular involvement in young individuals with mild or asymptomatic COVID-19.

Methods

Screening echocardiograms were performed in 54 consecutive student athletes (mean age 19 years; 85% male) who had positive results of reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction nasal swab testing of the upper respiratory tract or immunoglobulin G antibodies against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus type 2. Sequential cardiac magnetic resonance imaging was performed in 48 (89%) subjects.