Enlargement of one of the heart's four chambers — the right ventricle — was the best predictor of which patients with severe COVID-19 infections were most likely to die, doctors report
Enlargement of one of the heart's four chambers — the right ventricle — was the best predictor of which patients with severe Covid-19 infections were most likely to die, doctors reported Monday.
Of the 105 patients in the study, 32 of them — or 31% — had dilation of the right ventricle based on an echocardiogram, or ultrasound of the heart. Of these, 41% died by the end of the study period, compared to 11% of those without right ventricular enlargement. "This study provides important evidence associating right heart strain with adverse outcomes in hospitalized patients with COVID-19 infection," said Dr. Edgar Argulian, an assistant professor of medicine and a lead author on the study.
This is not the first time an association has been found between Covid-19 and right ventricular enlargement. Earlier this month, a case series in the New England Journal of Medicine described five critically ill Covid patients with enlargement of the right ventricle.
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