key: cord-1041926-1ya5shdq
authors: Lavie, Carl J.; Sanchis-Gomar, Fabian; Lippi, Giuseppe
title: Cardiac Injury in COVID-19–Echoing Prognostication
date: 2020-11-03
journal: J Am Coll Cardiol
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2020.08.068
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doc_id: 1041926
cord_uid: 1ya5shdq

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Cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) revealed the presence of abnormal CMR findings (i.e., raised myocardial native T 1 , raised myocardial native T 2 , myocardial late gadolinium enhancement, and pericardial enhancement) in 78% of cases and myocardial inflammation in 60%. During hospitalization, highsensitivity cardiac troponin T (hs-cTnT) levels were found to be significantly increased (13.9 ng/l or even higher) in 15 patients (15%) whereas, at the time of performing CMR, detectable levels of hs-cTnT (i.e., $3 ng/l) were found in the vast majority of patients (i.e., 71%) recently recovered from COVID-19, with some of them displaying even values of $13.9 ng/l. Importantly, hs-cTnT values were predictive of some CMR abnormalities.

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KEY WORDS COVID-19, echocardiography, inflammation, myocaardial injury, SARS-CoV-2, troponin