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01-12-2020 | Transesophageal Echocardiography | Research Letter
Cardiovascular phenotypes in ventilated patients with COVID-19 acute respiratory distress syndrome
Authors:
Bruno Evrard, Marine Goudelin, Noelie Montmagnon, Anne-Laure Fedou, Thomas Lafon, Philippe Vignon
Published in:
Critical Care
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Issue 1/2020
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Excerpt
Approximately two-thirds of patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) for coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) pneumonia present with the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) [
1]. COVID-19-associated acute cardiac injury is frequently reported based on troponin and electrocardiographic changes [
2], but its impact on cardiac function is yet unknown [
3]. Accordingly, we sought to describe cardiovascular phenotypes identified using transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) in ventilated COVID-19 patients with ARDS and to compare them to those of patients with flu-induced ARDS. …