Changes in blood flow vortices inside the left ventricle in COVID-19 patients with intraventricular clot despite a normal coronary and myocardial motion.

Mersedeh Karvandi Arash Mohammadi Tofigh Saeed Ranjbar Luigi Paolo Badano

Published in: Journal of echocardiography (2023)

Our results suggest that in some COVID-19 patients, cardiac wall motion is not satisfactorily able to circulate the blood fluid in normal directions and that, despite normal myocardium, changes in the directions of blood flow inside the left ventricle might lead to clots in different zones. This phenomenon may be related to changes in blood properties, such as viscosity.

Keyphrases

blood flow
sars cov
left ventricular
pulmonary artery
coronavirus disease
pulmonary hypertension
mitral valve
coronary artery
coronary artery disease
mass spectrometry
aortic stenosis
pulmonary arterial hypertension