Cardiac performance in patients hospitalized with COVID-19: a 6 month follow-up study.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

Myocardial injury is frequently observed in patients hospitalized with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pneumonia. Different cardiac abnormalities have been reported during the acute COVID-19 phase, ranging from infra-clinic elevations of myocardial necrosis biomarkers to acute cardiac dysfunction and myocarditis. There is limited information on late cardiac sequelae in patients who have recovered from acute COVID-19 illness. We aimed to document the presence and quantify the extent of myocardial functional alterations in patients hospitalized 6 months earlier for COVID-19 infection.

Methods and results

We conducted a prospective echocardiographic evaluation of 48 patients (mean age 58 ± 13 years, 69% male) hospitalized 6 ± 1 month earlier for a laboratory-confirmed

SUBMITTER: Fayol A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8120370 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature