Role of cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging in COVID-19 recovered patients: A short-term follow-up study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Cardiac involvement in recovered COVID-19 patients assessed by cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

Methods

Subjects recently recovered from COVID-19 and with an abnormal left ventricular global longitudinal strain were enrolled. Cardiac MRI in all the enrolled subjects was done at baseline (within 30-90 days following recovery from COVID-19) with a follow-up scan at 6 months in individuals with an abnormal baseline scan. Additionally, 20 age-and sex-matched individuals were enrolled as healthy controls (HCs).

Results

All the 30 enrolled subjects were symptomatic during active COVID-19 disease and were categorized as mild: 11 (36.7%), moderate: 6 (20%), and severe: 13 (43.3%). Of the 30 patients, 16 (53.3%) had abnormal CMR findings. Myocardial edema wa

SUBMITTER: Kunal S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9874707 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature