Echocardiographic assessment of the right ventricle in COVID-19 : a systematic review

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Cardiac involvement has been frequently reported in COVID-19 as responsible of increased morbidity and mortality. Given the importance of right heart function in acute and chronic respiratory diseases, its assessment in SARS-CoV-2 infected patients may add prognostic accuracy. Transthoracic echocardiography has been proposed to early predict myocardial injury and risk of death in hospitalized patients. This systematic review presents the up-to-date sum of literature regarding right ventricle ultrasound assessment. We evaluated commonly used echocardiographic parameters to assess RV function and discussed their relationship with pathophysiological mechanisms involved in COVID-19. We searched Medline and Embase for studies that used transthoracic echocardiography for right ventricle assessment in patients with COVID-19.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:37

Enthalten in:

The international journal of cardiovascular imaging - 37(2021), 12 vom: 22. Dez., Seite 3499-3512

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Ghidini, Simone [VerfasserIn]
Gasperetti, Alessio [VerfasserIn]
Winterton, Dario [VerfasserIn]
Vicenzi, Marco [VerfasserIn]
Busana, Mattia [VerfasserIn]
Pedrazzini, Giovanni [VerfasserIn]
Biasco, Luigi [VerfasserIn]
Tersalvi, Gregorio [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Echocardiography
Journal Article
Pulmonary hypertension
Review
Right ventricle
SARS-CoV-2
Systematic Review

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Date Completed 23.11.2021

Date Revised 01.11.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1007/s10554-021-02353-6

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM328373826