ECR: More anatomical changes seen on angio-CT in COVID patients

Patients with COVID-19 experience a higher incidence of anatomical changes at the cardiac level on pulmonary angio-CT, suggest findings presented February 29 at ECR 2024. In her presentation, Ana Filipa Colucas, MD, PhD, from the University of Algarve in Faro, Portugal, discussed her team’s findings, which also showed how the use of pulmonary angio-CT scans has increased since the COVID-19 pandemic. “There were more changes in the diameter of the pulmonary artery trunk and the right ventricle in patients in the 41 to 60 years age group and in males,” Colucas said. Previous studies suggest an association between COVID-19 and thrombosis events such as pulmonary thromboendarectomy (PTE). Pulmonary angio-CT is an established diagnostic method for patients suspected to have PTE as well as determining right ventricular dysfunction.Colucas and colleagues identified anatomical changes in pulmonary angio-CT images and how they were tied to clinical worsening of COVID-19 and PTE. They compared results between non-COVID-19 patients and COVID-19 patients. The team wanted to understand whether the presence of COVID-19 interfered with clinical workflows at the hospital level and whether it influenced changes in cardiac anatomical structures. Ana Filipa Colucas, MD, PhD, presents findings at ECR 2024 on anatomical changes in COVID-19 patients as observed on pulmonary angio-CT.The researchers included data from 134 angio-CT exams from a public hospital on PTE patients. These were s...
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