October 23, 2020
When a patient is hospitalized with COVID-19, signs of damage to the right side of the heart may indicate a greater risk of death, according to a study from investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian. The findings, published Oct. 27 in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, suggest that physicians should consider looking for such damage using a readily available and non-invasive ultrasound test called an echocardiogram.