Rita Camporotondo

TL;DR: This is the first case of acute cardiac injury directly linked to myocardial localization of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2) in a 69‐year‐old patient with flu‐like symptoms rapidly degenerating into respiratory distress, hypotension, and cardiogenic shock.

TL;DR: Elevated troponin was an independent variable associated with in-hospital mortality and a greater risk of cardiovascular and noncardiovascular complications during a hospitalization for COVID-19, and this was independent from concomitant cardiac disease.

TL;DR: To assess the prognostic value of a history of heart failure (HF) in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19), a large number of patients were diagnosed with atypical heart failure in the previous 12 months.

TL;DR: In patients with idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension, a larger RV diameter is a marker of a poor prognosis but a greater RV wall thickness reduces the risk of death associated with a dilated right ventricle.

TL;DR: Exercise echocardiography may identify a subset of SS patients with an inappropriate exercise-induced increase in PASP and early signs of right ventricular dysfunction and, most importantly, a blunted increase inright ventricular systolic function with exercise.