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Structural heart abnormalities were detected in nearly 70% of COVID-19 patients who also underwent a cardiac ultrasound, according to an international study published Monday.
In fact, among the more than 300 people who received a transthoracic echocardiogram (TTE) at one of the four Mount Sinai Health System hospitals in New York, 62.6% had a myocardial injury, and the majority showed damage at the time. of your income.
The findings, published Oct. 26 in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, should help clinicians more quickly identify patients at risk for heart injury and guide potential therapy.
“This is one of the first studies to provide detailed echocardiographic and electrocardiographic (ECG) data in hospitalized patients with COVID-19 and laboratory evidence of myocardial injury,” said first author Gennaro Giustino, MD, fellow of cardiology at Mount Hospital. Sinai of New York. in a statement. “We found that among COVID-19 patients who underwent transthoracic echocardiography, these cardiac structural abnormalities were diverse and were present in almost two-thirds of the patients.”
The authors noted that these conditions are associated with an increased risk of heart attack, pulmonary embolism, heart failure and myocarditis, in addition to an increased risk of death among hospitalized patients.
