Echocardiographic Findings of ICU-Admitted COVID-19 Patients: a Multicenter Retrospective Study
Novelty in Biomedicine,
Vol. 10 No. 2 (2022),
9 Ordibehesht 2022
,
Page 107-114
https://doi.org/10.22037/nbm.v10i2.36825
Abstract
Background: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has left many victims and caused many problems for the healthcare systems of different countries. Many COVID-19 patients have cardiovascular complications, which are detectable using echocardiography. This study aimed to determine the echocardiographic findings and their association with mortality in an intensive care unit (ICU)-admitted COVID-19 patients.
Materials and Methods: In this retrospective study, COVID-19 patients admitted to the ICU of four hospitals in Tehran, Iran, from April 2020 to March 2021 were recruited. Data were collected by the census method. We reviewed the medical records regarding demographic features, clinical history, laboratory results, and echocardiographic findings. Finally, variables were compared regarding disease outcomes at the end of hospitalization. We used the Chi-square test, Fisher’s exact test, independent-samples t-test, and logistic regression model to analyze the data.
Results: This study showed that the mean age of 629 COVID-19 patients was 66.42±14.53 years. Overall, 56.8% of the patients were male. Multivariate regression analysis showed that age (OR=1.03; 95% CI: 1.01-1.05), left ventricular ejection fraction (OR=0.95; 95% CI: 0.92-0.98), and systolic pulmonary arterial pressure (OR=1.12; 95% CI: 1.06-1.18) were predictors of mortality.
Conclusion: Cardiovascular involvement is prevalent among critically ill COVID-19 patients. Among echocardiographic findings, EF and s-PAP were significantly associated with the disease outcomes.
- COVID-19, Cardiovascular disease, Echocardiography, Mortality, SARS-CoV-2
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