Cardiovascular imaging demonstrated no evidence of myocardial injury or myocarditis in athletes after COVID-19 infection, according to a research letter published in Circulation by Le Bonheur Children's Hospital and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center cardiologists.
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Cardiovascular imaging demonstrated no evidence of myocardial injury or myocarditis in athletes after COVID-19 infection, according to a research letter published in
Circulation by Le Bonheur Children s Hospital and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center cardiologists. The screening and evaluation was conducted by the Le Bonheur Children s Heart Institute Sports Cardiology team, Benjamin S. Hendrickson, MD, Ranjit R. Philip, MD, and Ryan E. Stephens, NP-C, MBA, and Le Bonheur Director of Cardiac MRI Jason N. Johnson, MD, MHS. Researchers say this study confirms existing recommendations that cardiovascular screening can be deferred in COVID-19 positive athletes who are asymptomatic or have milder symptoms.
May 12, 2021
Mild cases of COVID-19 that do not require hospitalization are unlikely to have any lasting cardiovascular effect on otherwise healthy individuals, a study of British healthcare workers suggests. Published the same week, the latest in a series of analyses looking at college athletes who recovered from mild COVID also found no evidence of cardiac damage on imaging.
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At 6 months, mild infections “left no measurable cardiovascular impact on LV structure, function, scar burden, aortic stiffness, or serum biomarkers,” write the UK researchers, led by George Joy, MBBS (Barts Heart Centre, London, England). The study, which compared healthcare professionals who did not test positive for COVID-19 (75 subjects) with those who did (74 subjects), was presented last weekend at the EuroCMR meeting and simultaneously published in
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DALLAS, May 10, 2021 In a small study, researchers found college athletes who contracted COVID-19 rarely had cardiac complications. Most had mild COVID symptoms that did not require treatment, and in a small percentage of those with abnormal cardiac testing, there was no evidence of heart damage on special imaging tests. All athletes returned to sports without any health concerns, according to new research published today in the American Heart Association’s flagship journal
Circulation.
In spring 2020, concerns about heart damage, especially inflammation, among athletes with COVID-19 led to recommendations for cardiac screening based on symptom severity before resuming training and competition. The preferred diagnostic test for heart inflammation is an MRI of the heart, or cardiac magnetic resonance imaging. The American College of Cardiology’s Sports & Exercise Cardiology Council’s standard recommendations, issued in May 2020, do not advise cardiac MRI as an ini
Cardiac complications found to be rare in college athletes who contracted COVID-19
In a small study, researchers found college athletes who contracted COVID-19 rarely had cardiac complications. Most had mild COVID symptoms that did not require treatment, and in a small percentage of those with abnormal cardiac testing, there was no evidence of heart damage on special imaging tests. All athletes returned to sports without any health concerns, according to new research published today in the American Heart Association s flagship journal
Circulation.
In spring 2020, concerns about heart damage, especially inflammation, among athletes with COVID-19 led to recommendations for cardiac screening based on symptom severity before resuming training and competition. The preferred diagnostic test for heart inflammation is an MRI of the heart, or cardiac magnetic resonance imaging. The American College of Cardiology s Sports & Exercise Cardiology Council s standard recommendations, issued in