Right heart echocardiography findings in hypoxic pneumonia patients during the COVID-19 pandemic in a South African population.
Sarah Alexandra van BlydensteinShahed OmarBarry JacobsonColin Nigel MenezesRuchika MeelPublished in: European heart journal. Imaging methods and practice (2023)
Patients with COVID-19 pneumonia had a similar admission prevalence of RVD when compared to patients with non-COVID-19 pneumonia. Despite preserved traditional parameters of RV systolic function, RVFWS was diminished in both groups, and we propose that RVFWS serves as an important marker of the subclinical disease of RV.
Keyphrases
- mycobacterium tuberculosis
- end stage renal disease
- heart failure
- left ventricular
- coronavirus disease
- ejection fraction
- sars cov
- newly diagnosed
- blood pressure
- chronic kidney disease
- emergency department
- computed tomography
- peritoneal dialysis
- pulmonary hypertension
- prognostic factors
- respiratory failure
- atrial fibrillation
- intensive care unit
- acute respiratory distress syndrome
- respiratory syndrome coronavirus