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Consultant Cardiologist at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. Views my own. Cardiac MRI, CT, Echo, HF, Clinical Trials, Research Reliability.
Feb 18, 2021 13 tweets 14 min read
How is the #heart affected in severe #COVID19? Patients with a raised troponin have worse outcomes – but why? Our multicentre #whyCMR @ESC_Journals paper shows a variety of problems including infarction, ischaemia and a myocarditis-like injury. academic.oup.com/eurheartj/adva… This was a very sick #COVID19 group: all admitted, all with raised troponin, 1 in 3 ventilated. Our findings DON’T tell us about the hearts of patients with mild illness who didn’t need admission to hospital or didn’t have raised troponin.