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. 2021 Mar 10;5(3):ytaa575. doi: 10.1093/ehjcr/ytaa575
Day 1
  • Admission with progressive coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pneumonia and type 1 respiratory failure, requiring non-invasive ventilation.

Day 4
  • Transferred to another hospital for extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). Computed tomography with pulmonary angiography showed pulmonary embolism. Un-enhanced echocardiography showed RV strain. Therapeutic dose of anticoagulation therapy was started.

Day 20
  • Decannulated from ECMO.

Day 30
  • Transferred back to our hospital for rehabilitation.

Day 40
  • Echocardiography was requested due to noted persistent tachycardia, which showed a persistently dilated and dysfunctional right ventricular (RV) with a probable RV mass. Contrast echocardiography showed an avascular mass, likely to be thrombus in this clinical scenario. Anticoagulation therapy was continued extending to 6 months with reassessment of the RV mass by echocardiography after his discharge.

Day 58
  • Patient continued to improve and discharged.

Day 155
  • A follow-up echocardiography was done:

RV radial function normalized (fractional area change (FAC) = 38%), normal RV longitudinal systolic function, Apart from RV trabeculae, no mass or thrombi could be seen and confirmed by low MI contrast enhancement.