Clinical features of pericarditis in patients with SARS-CoV-2

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Background: COVID-19 disease (coronavirus disease 2019) has multiple potentially fatal cardiovascular complications and pericarditis is one of them; however, if prompt treatment is given, fatal events associated to this complication decrease. Its frequency and presentation characteristics are unknown, which is why its early diagnosis is important.

Objective: To know the frequency of pericarditis secondary to COVID-19 and its presentation characteristics.

Material and methods: Cross-sectional study in patients with a diagnosis of pericarditis after COVID-19 disease (with a positive test). Symptoms, age, sex, comorbidities, and electrocardiogram (ECG) and transthoracic echocardiogram (TTE) results were obtained.

Results: A total of 3364 patients positive for COVID-19 were registered, out of which 10 met criteria for pericarditis, which represented a frequency of 0.30%. The average age of the sample was 46.1 years and 60% predominated in the male gender with a 1.5:1 ratio. The most frequent clinical characteristics were the presence of retrosternal pain (90%), absence of comorbidity (50%), and absence of electrocardiographic changes (40%).

Conclusions: Pericarditis has a low frequency in patients with COVID-19. The predominant clinical presentation is chest pain. Almost half will not have electrocardiographic changes, and half will not have comorbidities.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:61

Enthalten in:

Revista medica del Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social - 61(2023), Suppl 2 vom: 18. Dez., Seite S269-S274

Sprache:

Spanisch

Weiterer Titel:

Características clínicas de la pericarditis en pacientes con SARS-CoV-2

Beteiligte Personen:

Martínez-Mata, Luis Alonso [VerfasserIn]
Ledesma-Ramírez, Silvia Amparo [VerfasserIn]
Ramos-Ramos, Xóchitl [VerfasserIn]

Themen:

Cardiovascular Diseases
Coronavirus Infections
Cross-Sectional Studies
Echocardiography
Ecocardiografía
Enfermedades Cardiovasculares
English Abstract
Estudios Transversales
Infecciones por Coronavirus
Journal Article
Observational Study
Pericarditis

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 30.11.2023

Date Revised 30.11.2023

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM365072982