Table 3.
Echocardiographic and procedural characteristics.
| Variable | COVID + Patients (n = 57 Patients) |
Control Patients (n = 74 Patients) |
p Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Echocardiographic characteristics | |||
| Mean LVEF (%) | 39 (32–56) | 33 (30–48) | 0.044 |
| Number of coronary lesions | |||
| Without atherosclerotic lesions | 9 (15.78%) | 1 (1.35%) | 0.020 |
| Unicoronary lesion | 31 (54.38%) | 39 (52.70%) | 0.423 |
| Bicoronary lesions | 8 (14.03%) | 18 (24.32%) | 0.068 |
| Tricoronary lesions | 9 (15.78%) | 16 (21.62%) | 0.085 |
| Primary PCI | |||
| LAD | 23 (40.35%) | 34 (45.94%) | 0.134 |
| RCA | 7 (12.28%) | 8 (10.81%) | 0.204 |
| LCX | 14 (24.56%) | 24 (32.43%) | 0.098 |
| Thromboaspiration (no need for primary PCI) | 10 (17.54%) | 2 (2.70%) | <0.001 |
LAD, left anterior descending artery; LCX, left circumflex artery; LVEF, left ventricular ejection fraction; RCA, right coronary artery; PCI, percutaneous coronary intervention.