Multimodality Cardiac Imaging in COVID.
Circ Res
; 132(10): 1387-1404, 2023 05 12.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-37167354
ABSTRACT
Infection with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID, is associated with numerous potential secondary complications. Global efforts have been dedicated to understanding the myriad potential cardiovascular sequelae which may occur during acute infection, convalescence, or recovery. Because patients often present with nonspecific symptoms and laboratory findings, cardiac imaging has emerged as an important tool for the discrimination of pulmonary and cardiovascular complications of this disease. The clinician investigating a potential COVID-related complication must account not only for the relative utility of various cardiac imaging modalities but also for the risk of infectious exposure to staff and other patients. Extraordinary clinical and scholarly efforts have brought the international medical community closer to a consensus on the appropriate indications for diagnostic cardiac imaging during this protracted pandemic. In this review, we summarize the existing literature and reference major societal guidelines to provide an overview of the indications and utility of echocardiography, nuclear imaging, cardiac computed tomography, and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging for the diagnosis of cardiovascular complications of COVID.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
COVID-19
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Heart Diseases
Type of study:
Etiology_studies
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Guideline
Limits:
Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
Circ Res
Year:
2023
Document type:
Article