SynthesisJournal of critical care2021
COVID-19-related echocardiographic patterns of cardiovascular dysfunction in critically ill patients: A systematic review of the current literature.
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- Abnormal Echocardiographic Findings in Hospitalized Patients with Covid-19: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia · 2022Pooled it
- Hemoperfusion and blood purification strategies in patients with COVID-19: A systematic review.Artificial organs · 2021Pooled it
- Predicting mortality in severe Covid-19 Pneumonia: the role of right ventricular dysfunction.Journal of clinical monitoring and computing · 2024Observational
- Echocardiographic parameters in COVID-19 patients and their association with ICU mortality: a prospective multicenter observational study.The ultrasound journal · 2023Article
- The interplay between left ventricular diastolic and right ventricular dysfunction: challenges in the interpretation of critical care echocardiography studies.The Egyptian heart journal : (EHJ) : official bulletin of the Egyptian Society of Cardiology · 2023Article
- Transthoracic echocardiography of patients in prone position ventilation during the COVID-19 pandemic: an observational and retrospective study.The international journal of cardiovascular imaging · 2022Observational
- Full and simplified assessment of left ventricular diastolic function in covid-19 patients admitted to ICU: Feasibility, incidence, and association with mortality.Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.) · 2022Article
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- Echocardiography in COVID-19 Pandemic: Clinical Findings and the Importance of Emerging Technology.Cardiac electrophysiology clinics · 2022Review
- The Evolving Role of Echocardiography During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic.Heart international · 2022Review
- Subclinical Myocardial Dysfunction in Patients with Persistent Dyspnea One Year after COVID-19.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- The Prognostic Value of Cardiac Biomarkers and Echocardiography in Critical COVID-19.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2021Article
- Influence of right ventricular structure and function on hospital outcomes in COVID-19 patients.Heart & lung : the journal of critical careArticle
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9 authors at 6 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
purposeCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection may trigger a multi-systemic disease involving different organs. There has been growing interest regarding the harmful effects of COVID-19 on the cardiovascular system. This systematic review aims to systematically analyze papers reporting echocardiographic findings in hospitalized COVID-19 subjects. MATERIALS AND
methodsWe included prospective and retrospective studies reporting echocardiography data in >10 hospitalized adult subjects with COVID-19; from 1st February 2020 to 15th January 2021.
resultsThe primary electronic search identified 1120 articles. Twenty-nine studies were finally included, enrolling 3944 subjects. Overall the studies included a median of 68.0% (45.5-100.0) of patients admitted to ICU. Ten studies (34.4%) were retrospective, and 20 (68.9%) single-centred. Overall enrolling 1367 subjects, three studies reported normal echocardiographic findings in 49 ± 18% of cases. Seven studies (24.1%) analyzed the association between echocardiographic findings and mortality, mostly related to right ventricular (RV) dysfunction.
conclusionsData regarding the use of echocardiography on hospitalized, predominantly ICU, COVID-19 patients were retrieved from studies with heterogeneous designs, variable sample sizes, and severity scores. Normal echocardiographic findings were reported in about 50% of subjects, with LVEF usually not affected. Overall, RV dysfunction seems more likely associated with increased mortality.
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