ArticleJournal of echocardiography2022
Cardiac involvement in patients recovered from COVID-19 identified using left ventricular longitudinal strain.
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- Myocardial Work Indices in Patients Recently Recovered from Mild-to-Moderate COVID-19.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Evaluation of cardiovascular autonomic dysfunction in symptomatic post-COVID-19 patients using the heart rate variability (HRV) and detection of subtle LV dysfunction using 2D global longitudinal strain (GLS).The international journal of cardiovascular imaging · 2023Article
- Clinical profile and the extent of residual myocardial dysfunction among patients with previous coronavirus disease 2019.The international journal of cardiovascular imaging · 2023Article
- Strain Echocardiography in Acute COVID-19 and Post-COVID Syndrome: More than Just a Snapshot.Biomedicines · 2023Review
- Cardiopulmonary work up of patients with and without fatigue 6 months after COVID-19.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- The Evolving Role of Echocardiography During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic.Heart international · 2022Review
- Serial evaluation of biventricular function in COVID-19 recovered patients using speckle tracking echocardiography.Indian heart journalArticle
- Use of strain imaging to detect subtle myocardial involvement in post COVID-19 patients: An Indian perspective.Indian heart journalArticle
- Can Global Longitudinal Strain Assess Asymptomatic Subtle Left Ventricular Dysfunction in Recovered COVID-19 Patients?Journal of cardiovascular echographyArticle
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Abstract
introductionCoronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) has been associated with subclinical myocardial dysfunction during its acute phase and a recurring pattern of reduced basal left ventricular longitudinal strain on speckle-tracking echocardiography (STE) in hospitalized patients. But a question still remains unanswered: speckle-tracking echocardiography might also be suitable to detect residual myocardial involvement after acute stage of COVID-19? METHODS AND
resultsWe studied 100 patients recovered from COVID-19 with STE to evaluate global (GLS) and segmentar longitudinal strain (LS) and compared with a control group of 100 healthy individuals. STE was performed at a median of 130.35 ± 76.06 days after COVID-19 diagnostic. Demographic and echocardiographic parameters are similar in both groups. Left ventricular ejection faction (LVEF) and GLS were normal in COVID-19 patients (66.20 ± 1.98% and - 19.51 ± 2.87%, respectively). A reduction in mean LS for the basal segments was found in COVID-19 (16.48 ± 5.41%) when compared to control group (19.09 ± 4.31%) (p < 0.001).
conclusionThe present study suggests that COVID-19-induced cardiac involvement could persist after recovery of the disease and may be detected by deformation abnormalities using STE. COVID-19-induced myocardial involvement often shows specific LV deformation patterns due to pronounced edema and/or myocardial damage in basal LV segments.
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