1. Echocardiographic assessment of the right ventricle in COVID-19: a systematic review.
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Ghidini, Simone, Gasperetti, Alessio, Winterton, Dario, Vicenzi, Marco, Busana, Mattia, Pedrazzini, Giovanni, Biasco, Luigi, and Tersalvi, Gregorio
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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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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