Role of cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging in COVID-19 recovered patients: A short-term follow-up study.

Objective: Cardiac involvement in recovered COVID-19 patients assessed by cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

Methods: Subjects recently recovered from COVID-19 and with an abnormal left ventricular global longitudinal strain were enrolled. Cardiac MRI in all the enrolled subjects was done at baseline (within 30-90 days following recovery from COVID-19) with a follow-up scan at 6 months in individuals with an abnormal baseline scan.

Is ambulatory blood pressure measurement a new indicator for survival among advanced heart failure cases.

Background: Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) in heart failure is not well defined. However, from the limited studies available, ABPM may be used to optimize heart failure therapy, and as a prognostic marker in this patient group. We analyzed the ABPM values with survival in advanced heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) patients who are on optimal guideline directed medical therapy (GDMT).