Echocardiographic assessment of the right ventricle in COVID-19: a systematic review.
Simone GhidiniAlessio GasperettiDario WintertonMarco VicenziMattia BusanaGiovanni PedrazziniLuigi BiascoGregorio TersalviPublished in: The international journal of cardiovascular imaging (2021)
Cardiac involvement has been frequently reported in COVID-19 as responsible of increased morbidity and mortality. Given the importance of right heart function in acute and chronic respiratory diseases, its assessment in SARS-CoV-2 infected patients may add prognostic accuracy. Transthoracic echocardiography has been proposed to early predict myocardial injury and risk of death in hospitalized patients. This systematic review presents the up-to-date sum of literature regarding right ventricle ultrasound assessment. We evaluated commonly used echocardiographic parameters to assess RV function and discussed their relationship with pathophysiological mechanisms involved in COVID-19. We searched Medline and Embase for studies that used transthoracic echocardiography for right ventricle assessment in patients with COVID-19.
Keyphrases
- sars cov
- pulmonary hypertension
- systematic review
- left ventricular
- coronavirus disease
- mitral valve
- pulmonary artery
- respiratory syndrome coronavirus
- magnetic resonance imaging
- heart failure
- mycobacterium tuberculosis
- pulmonary arterial hypertension
- liver failure
- atrial fibrillation
- ejection fraction
- congenital heart disease
- left atrial