Publicado en el Interventional Journal of Cardiology el trabajo «Cardiac magnetic resonance in recovering COVID-19 patients. Feature tracking and mapping analysis to detect persistent myocardial involvement«.
Urmeneta Ulloa J1,2 MD, Martínez de Vega V2 MD, Salvador Montañés O1 MD, Álvarez Vázquez A2 MD, Sánchez-Enrique C1 MD, phD, Hernández Jiménez S1 MD, Sancho García FD2 MD, López Ruiz L2 MD, Recio Rodríguez M2 MD, Pizarro G3 MD phD, Carnevali Ruiz D4 MD, Cabrera JA1 MD, phD.
1 – Cardiology Department. Hospital Universitario Quirónsalud, Madrid. Spain.
2 – Radiology Department. Hospital Universitario Quirónsalud, Madrid. Spain.
3 – Cardiology Department. Ruber Juan Bravo Hospital Complex. Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), Madrid, Spain; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red en Enfermedades Cardiovasculares (CIBERCV), Madrid, Spain.
4 – Internal Medicine Department. Hospital Universitario Quirónsalud, Madrid. Spain
Post-COVID-19 patients may incur myocardial involvement secondary to systemic inflammation. Compared to heathy controls, post-COVID-19 patients had raised T2 mapping values, but similar native T1, Feature Tracking-Circunferencial Strain and Feature Tracking-Radial Strain values. When study group patients were sub-grouped according to contact-to-CMR interval (<8 weeks and ≥8 weeks), we found lower FT-CS and FT-RS values for the shorter interval.