ArticleInternal and emergency medicine2021
Echocardiographic assessment of the right ventricle in COVID -related acute respiratory syndrome.
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- Right Ventricular Dysfunction in Patients With COVID-19: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Journal of cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesia · 2021Pooled it
- Prevalence of right ventricular dysfunction and impact on all-cause death in hospitalized patients with COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Scientific reports · 2021Pooled it
- Association between galectin-3 and echocardiographic changes in hospitalized patients with coronavirus disease 2019: A retrospective observational study.The Journal of international medical research · 2026Observational
- The Role of POCUS to Face COVID-19: A Narrative Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Review
- Effects of COVID-19 on the Autonomic Cardiovascular System: Heart Rate Variability and Turbulence in Recovered Patients.Texas Heart Institute journal · 2023Article
- High AST/ALT Ratio Is Associated with Cardiac Involvement in Acute COVID-19 Patients.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2023Article
- CORONA (COre ultRasOund of covid in iNtensive care and Acute medicine) study: National service evaluation of lung and heart ultrasound in intensive care patients with suspected or proven COVID-19.Journal of the Intensive Care Society · 2023Article
- Pulmonary hypertension at admission predicts ICU mortality in elderly critically ill with severe COVID-19 pneumonia: retrospective cohort study.Cardiovascular ultrasound · 2023Observational
- Pulmonary hypertension predicts higher mortality in patients admitted with severe COVID-19 infection.SAGE open medicine · 2023Article
- Effects of rescue inhaled nitric oxide on right ventricle and pulmonary circulation in severe COVID-related acute respiratory distress syndrome.Journal of critical care · 2022Article
- Persistent Right Ventricle Dilatation in SARS-CoV-2-Related Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome on Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Support.Journal of cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesia · 2022Article
- Coupling of right ventricular function to pulmonary circulation as an independent predictor for non invasive ventilation failure in SARSCoV 2-related acute respiratory distress syndrome.American heart journal plus : cardiology research and practice · 2022Article
- Combined lung and cardiac ultrasound in COVID-related acute respiratory distress syndrome.Internal and emergency medicine · 2021Article
- Imaging Evaluation of Pulmonary and Non-Ischaemic Cardiovascular Manifestations of COVID-19.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Echocardiographic Evaluation of Right Ventricular (RV) Performance over Time in COVID-19-Associated ARDS-A Prospective Observational Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Article
- Utility of Non-invasive Cardiac Imaging Assessment in Coronavirus Disease 2019.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2021Review
- COVID-19 and Pulmonary Hypertension in Children: What Do We Know So Far?Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2020Review
- MECHANICAL VENTILATION NEED AND GLYCEMIC STATUS IN PATIENTS WITH COVID -19: A FOLLOW-UP STUDY.Acta endocrinologica (Bucharest, Romania : 2005)Article
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Abstract
In patients with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) infection, the echocardiographic assessment of the right ventricle (RV) represents a pivotal element in the understanding of current disease status and in monitoring disease progression. The present manuscript is aimed at specifically describing the echocardiographic assessment of the right ventricle, mainly focusing on the most useful parameters and the time of examination. The RV direct involvement happens quite often due to preferential lung tropism of COVID-19 infection, which is responsible for an interstitial pneumonia characterized also by pulmonary hypoxic vasoconstriction (and thus an RV afterload increase), often evolving in acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). The indirect RV involvement may be due to the systemic inflammatory activation, caused by COVID-19, which may affect the overall cardiovascular system mainly by inducing an increase in troponin values and in the sympathetic tone and altering the volemic status (mainly by affecting renal function). Echocardiographic parameters, specifically focused on RV (dimensions and function) and pulmonary circulation (systolic pulmonary arterial pressures, RV wall thickness), are to be measured in a COVID-19 patient with respiratory failure and ARDS. They have been selected on the basis of their feasibility (that is easy to be measured, even in short time) and usefulness for clinical monitoring. It is advisable to measure the same parameters in the single patient (based also on the availability of valid acoustic windows) which are identified in the first examination and repeated in the following ones, to guarantee a reliable monitoring. Information gained from a clinically-guided echocardiographic assessment holds a clinical utility in the single patients when integrated with biohumoral data (indicating systemic activation), blood gas analysis (reflecting COVID-19-induced lung damage) and data on ongoing therapies (in primis ventilatory settings).
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