Open AccessRelation Among Right Ventricular Dysfunction, Lung Damage, and Mortality in Patients With COVID-19
Author(s) -
Miho Fukui,
João L. Cavalcante
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
jacc. cardiovascular imaging
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.79
H-Index - 120
eISSN - 1936-878X
pISSN - 1876-7591
DOI - 10.1016/j.jcmg.2020.05.032
Subject(s) - covid-19 , medicine , cardiology , coronavirus , lung , disease , pathology , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty)
We read with interest the paper by Li et al. ([1][1]), which evaluated the prognostic value of speckle-tracking echocardiography derived right ventricular longitudinal strain (RVLS) in 120 hospitalized patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The authors confirmed that impaired RVLS was
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