Prognostic value of pre-hospitalization stress perfusion cardiovascular magnetic resonance to predict death in patients hospitalized for COVID-19.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Inducible ischaemia is a strong marker of vascular vulnerability. Knowing the important role of the vascular tropism of COVID-19 to explain its severity, the presence of a prior inducible ischaemia may be a key pathogenetic determinant of COVID-19 severity.

Aims

To investigate the prognostic value of prior inducible ischaemia on stress cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) to predict death in patients hospitalized for COVID-19.

Methods

We retrospectively analysed consecutive patients referred for stress perfusion CMR during 1/1/18-1/1/20 who were later hospitalized for COVID-19. The primary outcome was all-cause death, including in-hospital and post-hospitalization deaths, based on the electronic national death registry.

Results

Among the patients

SUBMITTER: Pezel T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8556590 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature