Echocardiographic findings in health workers recovered from mild infection by sars-cov2 from a covid IV hospital in Peru

• Autores: Baltodano-Arellano, Roberto, Cupe-Chacalcaje, Kelly, Rojas, Paol, Meneses, Giovanni, Urdanivia-Ruiz, Dante, Rafael-Horna, Eliana, Falcón-Quispe, Luis, Cachicatari-Beltran, Angela, Hurtado-Belizario, Karla Sue América, Levano-Pachas, Gerald
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2022
• Institución: Colegio Médico del Perú
• Repositorio: Acta Médica Peruana
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/2066
• Enlace del recurso: https://amp.cmp.org.pe/index.php/AMP/article/view/2066
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: SARS-CoV-2 echocardiography

Objectives: To determine structural or functional echocardiographic findings in patients recovered from SARS-CoV-2 infection. Materials and methods: Cross-sectional observational study, which included worker patients of a national COVID hospital, who were studied between 3 to 6 months after the diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 infection. The echocardiographic examination was carried out systematically and included conventional modalities. Results: 65 cases with CoV-2 infection were included, the average age was 37.7 years, obesity was the most frequent comorbidity (13.8%) and the mild clinical presentation was the one with the highest prevalence (84.6%). The mean diastolic diameter and left ventricular eyection fraction were 42mm and 57%, respectively. Likewise, the mean basal diameter of the right ventricle was 31mm, the shortening fraction was 44%, and the probability of pulmonary hypertension was reported as low in all cases. No pericardial effusion was found in any of the cases. Conclusions The patients recovered from SARS-CoV-2 infection do not present structural or functional alterations in conventional echocardiographic examination.