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Right ventricular abnormalities in hospitalized patients with severe covid-19 infection /

Hossam Abdelghany Aly Ahmed

Right ventricular abnormalities in hospitalized patients with severe covid-19 infection / اعتلالات البطين الأيمن فى المرضى المحجوزين بالمستشفى و يعانون من التهاب شديد كوفيد ١٩ Hossam Abdelghany Aly Ahmed ; Supervised Yasser Kamel Baghdady , Hossam Eldin Elhossary , Ahmed Mohamed Talaat - Cairo : Hossam Abdelghany Aly Ahmed , 2021 - 116 P. : charts , facsimiles ; 25cm

Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Cardiology

The study was conducted on 90 consecutive adult patients admitted to the ELMOKATTAM health insurance hospital because of acute severe COVID-19 infection. The primary outcome is to assess the incidence of right Ventricle dilatation and systolic dysfunction in severe Covid-19 patients and correlation of right ventricular dilatation and systolic dysfunction and in-hospital outcome. RV dilation was prevalent in the current study of hospitalized patients and RV dilatation was independently associated with in-hospital mortality in the current study



Coronavirus disease 2019 Tissue Doppler imaging Tricuspid annular plane systolic excursion