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. 2020 Oct 19;76(17):1978–1981. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2020.09.529

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Adverse RV Remodeling By Echocardiography Was Associated With Doubling of Mortality in Patients With COVID-19

In this setting, acute respiratory distress syndrome, pulmonary embolism, mechanical ventilation, myocardial ischemia and infarction, shock, and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) related infection and inflammation of the myocyte may contribute to right ventricular (RV) dilation and dysfunction. BP = blood pressure; PEEP = positive end-expiratory pressure.