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. 2022 Apr 8;2022:3259978. doi: 10.1155/2022/3259978

Table 1.

Recent reports on cardiac abnormalities in athletes with COVID-19.

First author (year) No. of participants Average age ± SD (years) No. of asymptomatic (%) No. of symptomatic (%) Elevated troponin I or T levels LGE presence No. of myocarditis
Rajpal et al. (2020) [16] 26 19.5 ± 1.5 14/26 (54%) 12/26 (46%) 0/26 12/26 4
Vago et al. (2020) [25] 12 23 2/12 (17%) 10/12 (83%) 0/12 0/12 0
Brito et al. (2020) [17] 54 19 16/54 (30%) 38/54 (70%) 1/54 1/54 0
Clark et al. (2020) [15] 22 20 5/22 (23%) 17/22 (77%) 0/22 2/22 1

Each study analyzed serum troponin I or T levels and utilized CMR to evaluate LGE and other cardiac parameters. Only Clark et al. [15] performed transthoracic echocardiography in addition to hsTnT and CMR.