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Integrated clinical role of echocardiography in patients with COVID-19
  1. Matteo Pagnesi1,
  2. Luca Baldetti1,
  3. Alessandro Beneduce2,
  4. Francesco Calvo1,
  5. Mario Gramegna1,
  6. Vittorio Pazzanese1,
  7. Giacomo Ingallina3,
  8. Antonio Napolano3,
  9. Renato Finazzi4,
  10. Annalisa Ruggeri5,
  11. Silvia Ajello6,
  12. Giulio Melisurgo6,
  13. Paolo Guido Camici7,
  14. Paolo Scarpellini8,
  15. Moreno Tresoldi4,
  16. Giovanni Landoni7,9,
  17. Fabio Ciceri5,7,
  18. Anna Mara Scandroglio6,9,
  19. Eustachio Agricola3,7,
  20. Alberto Maria Cappelletti1
  1. 1 Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy
  2. 2 Interventional Cardiology Department, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy
  3. 3 Cardiovascular Imaging Unit, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy
  4. 4 Unit of General Medicine and Advanced Care, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy
  5. 5 Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplantation Unit, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy
  6. 6 Cardio-thoracic Intensive Care Unit, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy
  7. 7 Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy
  8. 8 Department of Infectious Disease, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy
  9. 9 Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy
  1. Correspondence to Dr Matteo Pagnesi, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Via Olgettina 60, 20132, Milan, Italy; m.pagnesi{at}gmail.com

https://doi.org/10.1136/heartjnl-2020-318310

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    The Authors' reply

    We are grateful to Dr Lazzeri et al 1 for their interest in our paper.2 We agree entirely with their considerations about cardiovascular involvement and the role of echocardiographic assessment in patients with COVID-19. Since myocardial injury is frequently observed in hospitalised patients with COVID-19, only an integrated approach, weighting the relative contribution of factors associated with a primitive ‘cardiac’ injury and of those associated with a secondary involvement, may lead to appropriate diagnosis and treatment. In this context, …

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    • MP and LB contributed equally.

    • Contributors MP and LB drafted the letter. All the other authors contributed to the revisions.

    • Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Patient and public involvement Patients and/or the public were not involved in the design, or conduct, or reporting, or dissemination plans of this research.

    • Patient consent for publication Not required.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.

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