CORRESPONDENCE of COVID-19; 3174 (62%) had received an outpatient diagnosis.
Among this population, 44 patients had firstever ischemic stroke during the observation period. …

Aims The present study had two aims: (i) compare echocardiographic parameters in COVID‐19
patients with matched controls and (2) assess the prognostic value of measures of left (…

Aims Left atrial (LA) function assessed by two-dimensional speckle-tracking echocardiography
has shown increasing clinical and prognostic significance. We sought to establish age- …

Background Left atrial (LA) strain parameters have been demonstrated to be valuable
predictors of atrial fibrillation (AF) in several patient cohorts. The purpose of this study was to …

Aim Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) enrolling patients at high cardiovascular risk have
found that influenza vaccination may reduce the incidence of cardiovascular events. We …

Background: Pressure-strain loop analyses is a noninvasive technique capable of evaluating
myocardial work. Reference values are needed to benchmark these myocardial work …

The usefulness of peak atrial longitudinal strain (PALS) in identifying patients at high risk of
atrial fibrillation (AF) recurrence after radiofrequency ablation (RFA) has been investigated in …

Background: Artificial intelligence (AI), such as machine learning (ML), shows great promise
for improving clinical decision-making in cardiac diseases by outperforming statistical-…

Aims Left ventricular (LV) systolic deformation is altered early in the ventricular disease process
despite normal LV ejection fraction (LVEF). These alterations seem to be characterized …

Methods We conducted a cohort study to understand the association of alcohol use and ARDS
development using data from ECHOVID-19 (The COVID-19 Echocardiography Study), a …