Echocardiographic findings in non-hospitalised children and adolescents following acute COVID-19.
Amanda M McIntoshAnmol GoyalCarol Moser-DunganBrian HarveyHoward J HechingDoaa G AlyNitin MadanDaniel ForshaPublished in: Cardiology in the young (2023)
Echocardiographic findings in children and adolescents 6 weeks to 3 months following acute COVID-19 not requiring hospitalisation were overall reassuring. Compared to healthy controls, the COVID-19 group demonstrated mildly larger left ventricular size and lower conventional measures of biventricular systolic function that remained within the normal range, with no differences in biventricular longitudinal strain. Future studies focusing on longitudinal echocardiographic assessment of patients following acute COVID-19 are needed to better understand these subtle differences in ventricular size and function.
Keyphrases
- left ventricular
- coronavirus disease
- sars cov
- cardiac resynchronization therapy
- liver failure
- ejection fraction
- respiratory failure
- heart failure
- mitral valve
- left atrial
- hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- end stage renal disease
- aortic stenosis
- aortic dissection
- acute myocardial infarction
- drug induced
- pulmonary hypertension
- respiratory syndrome coronavirus
- blood pressure
- peritoneal dialysis
- cross sectional
- chronic kidney disease
- intensive care unit
- extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
- transcatheter aortic valve replacement
- patient reported outcomes
- atrial fibrillation