Does echocardiography identify cardiac abnormalities and change management in patients with COVID-19?
Echocardiography frequently identifies severe or unheralded cardiac abnormalities in COVID-19 patients, leading to changes in clinical management in a third of cases.
In this global survey, cardiac abnormalities were observed in half of all COVID-19 patients undergoing echocardiography. Abnormalities were often unheralded or severe, and imaging changed management in one-third of patients.
Dweck et al. (Tue,) studied this question.