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.