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A Case Series of Diverse Cardiac Abnormalities in Collegiate Athlete with COVID-19: Role for Multimodality Imaging Table 1 Recent reports on cardiac abnormalities in athletes with COVID-19.
First author (year) No. of participants Average (years) No. of asymptomatic (%) No. of symptomatic (%) Elevated troponin I or T levels LGE presence No. of myocarditis Rajpal et al. (2020) [16 ] 26 14/26 (54%) 12/26 (46%) 0/26 12/26 4 Vago et al. (2020) [25 ] 12 23 2/12 (17%) 10/12 (83%) 0/12 0/12 0 Brito et al. (2020) [17 ] 54 19 16/54 (30%) 38/54 (70%) 1/54 1/54 0 Clark et al. (2020) [15 ] 22 20 5/22 (23%) 17/22 (77%) 0/22 2/22 1
Each study analyzed serum troponin I or T levels and utilized CMR to evaluate LGE and other cardiac parameters. Only Clark et al. [
15 ] performed transthoracic echocardiography in addition to hsTnT and CMR.