Reversible cardiac dysfunction in severe COVID-19 infection, mechanisms and case report.
Chieh-Ju ChaoPatrick A DeValeriaAyan SenHong LeeDawn M PedrottyBhavesh PatelReza ArsanjaniTasneem Z NaqviPublished in: Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.) (2020)
A previously healthy 49-year-old male patient presented with COVID-19 infection and required mechanical ventilation and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation due to severe hypoxemia. Echocardiography showed cardiac dysfunction with an apical sparing strain pattern, which rapidly normalized within a week. Apical sparing myocardial strain in patients with COVID-19 infection may suggest reverse-type stress cardiomyopathy.
Keyphrases
- acute respiratory distress syndrome
- extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
- mechanical ventilation
- left ventricular
- case report
- respiratory failure
- heart failure
- robot assisted
- early onset
- oxidative stress
- intensive care unit
- computed tomography
- drug induced
- pulmonary hypertension
- stress induced
- minimally invasive
- placebo controlled