Abstract

Mustafa Etli1, Seda Avnioglu2, Nalan Kozaci3 and Halil Yılmaz4 Author Affiliations 1Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Turkey 2Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Anatomy, Turkey 3Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Turkey 4Nevsehir Haci Bektas Veli University, Kozakli Vocational School, Department of Therapy and Rehabilitation, Turkey Received: August 13, 2021 | Published: August 26, 2021 Corresponding author: Seda Avnioglu, Asist of Prof, Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Anatomy, Antalya, Turkey DOI: 10.26717/BJSTR.2021.38.006146

Highlights

  • D-dimer, C-reactive protein (CRP) and high sensitivity troponin I (hs-TnI) levels increase with Total cardiac volume (TCV)

  • Diagnoses of COVID-19 of the patients were confirmed with reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests, which were performed on nasopharyngeal swab samples

  • The most common cardiac pathologies observed on echocardiography (ECHO) images of COVID-19 patients are reported as right-ventricular (RV) dilatation and dysfunction, left-ventricular (LV) diastolic dysfunction, LV systolic dysfunction, and regional or global wall motion abnormalities

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Objectives

We aimed to investigate cardiac involvement in patients diagnosed with the new Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). We aimed to investigate cardiac involvement and changes in patients diagnosed with COVID-19

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