Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Patients with COVID-19

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Ali Kemal Erenler Seval Komut Ahmet Baydin

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Ali Kemal Erenler
Department of Emergency Medicine, School of Medicine, Hitit University, Çorum, Turkey

A B S T R A C T

In the beginning of December 2019, an outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was determined in Wuhan, Hubei, China. Besides its predominant respiratory system-related symptoms, cardiovascular involvement has also been described in adults with direct and indirect cardiac injury. Pre-existing cardiovascular disease and cardiac risk factors have been shown to increase the risk of cardiac complications of COVID-19 infection. However, it is also known that healthy and asymptomatic COVID-19 survivors suffer cardiac damage-related complications. Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging (CMRI) is known to be the reference non-invasive standard to present cardiac function and tissue characterization. It is recommended as an effective and efficient diagnostic imaging choice to obtain critical information for clinical diagnosis and decision-making. In this article, we sought the usefulness of CMRI in cardiovascular complications related to COVID-19.

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Review Article

Publication history

Received: Fri 16, Oct 2020
Accepted: Mon 26, Oct 2020
Published: Mon 09, Nov 2020

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© 2023 Ali Kemal Erenler. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.RDI.2020.04.02