Timely Identification of Hospitalized Patients at Risk for COVID-19-Associated Right Heart Failure Should Be a Major Goal of Echocardiographic Surveillance

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Michael Dandel. J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2021 Dec.

. 2021 Dec;34(12):1323.

doi: 10.1016/j.echo.2021.08.020. Epub 2021 Sep 4.

¹ German Centre for Heart and Circulatory Research, Partner Site, Berlin, Germany. Electronic address: mdandel@aol.com.

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Keywords: COVID-19; Echocardiography; Heart failure; Pulmonary thrombotic microangiopathy; Right ventricle.

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Response to Letter to the Editor: Timely Identification of Hospitalized Patients at Risk for COVID-19-Associated Right Heart Failure Should Be a Major Goal of Echocardiographic Surveillance.
Karagodin I, Lang RM, Asch FM. Karagodin I, et al. J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2022 Jun;35(6):669. doi: 10.1016/j.echo.2022.01.014. Epub 2022 Feb 5. J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2022. PMID: 35134518 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

Echocardiographic Correlates of In-Hospital Death in Patients with Acute COVID-19 Infection: The World Alliance Societies of Echocardiography (WASE-COVID) Study.
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