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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Pagnesi, Matteo
• Baldetti, Luca
• Beneduce, Alessandro
• Calvo, Francesco
• Gramegna, Mario
• Pazzanese, Vittorio
• Ingallina, Giacomo
• Napolano, Antonio
• Finazzi, Renato
• Ruggeri, Annalisa
• Ajello, Silvia
• Melisurgo, Giulio
• Camici, Paolo Guido
• Scarpellini, Paolo
• Tresoldi, Moreno
• Landoni, Giovanni
• Ciceri, Fabio
• Scandroglio, Anna Mara
• Agricola, Eustachio
• Cappelletti, Alberto Maria

Titel

Pulmonary hypertension and right ventricular involvement in hospitalised patients with COVID-19

Ist Teil von

• Heart (British Cardiac Society), 2020-09, Vol.106 (17), p.1324-1331

Ort / Verlag

England: BMJ Publishing Group LTD

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

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MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• ObjectiveTo assess the prevalence, characteristics and prognostic value of pulmonary hypertension (PH) and right ventricular dysfunction (RVD) in hospitalised, non-intensive care unit (ICU) patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).MethodsThis single-centre, observational, cross-sectional study included 211 patients with COVID-19 admitted to non-ICU departments who underwent a single transthoracic echocardiography (TTE). Patients with poor acoustic window (n=11) were excluded. Clinical, imaging, laboratory and TTE findings were compared in patients with versus without PH (estimated systolic pulmonary artery pressure >35 mm Hg) and with versus without RVD (tricuspid annular plane systolic excursion <17 mm or S wave <9.5 cm/s). The primary endpoint was in-hospital death or ICU admission.ResultsA total of 200 patients were included in the final analysis (median age 62 (IQR 52–74) years, 65.5% men). The prevalence of PH and RVD was 12.0% (24/200) and 14.5% (29/200), respectively. Patients with PH were older and had a higher burden of pre-existing cardiac comorbidities and signs of more severe severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection (radiological lung involvement, laboratory findings and oxygenation status) compared with those without PH. Conversely, patients with RVD had a higher burden of pre-existing cardiac comorbidities but no evidence of more severe SARS-CoV-2 infection compared with those without RVD. The presence of PH was associated with a higher rate of in-hospital death or ICU admission (41.7 vs 8.5%, p<0.001), while the presence of RVD was not (17.2 vs 11.7%, p=0.404).ConclusionsAmong hospitalised non-ICU patients with COVID-19, PH (and not RVD) was associated with signs of more severe COVID-19 and with worse in-hospital clinical outcome.Trial registration number NCT04318366