Case Series

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 participantsAverage (years)No. of asymptomatic (%)No. of symptomatic (%)Elevated troponin I or T levelsLGE presenceNo. of myocarditis

Rajpal et al. (2020) [16]2614/26 (54%)12/26 (46%)0/2612/264
Vago et al. (2020) [25]12232/12 (17%)10/12 (83%)0/120/120
Brito et al. (2020) [17]541916/54 (30%)38/54 (70%)1/541/540
Clark et al. (2020) [15]22205/22 (23%)17/22 (77%)0/222/221

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.