Multimodality Cardiovascular Imaging in the Midst of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Ramping Up Safely to a New Normal

William A Zoghbi; Marcelo F DiCarli; Ron Blankstein; Andrew D Choi; Vasken Dilsizian; Frank A Flachskampf; Jeffrey B Geske; Paul A Grayburn; Farouc A Jaffer; Raymond Y Kwong; Jonathan A Leipsic; Thomas H Marwick; Eike Nagel; Koen Nieman; Subha V Raman; Michael Salerno; Partho P Sengupta; Leslee J Shaw; Y S Chandrashekhar; ACC Imaging Council

doi:10.1016/j.jcmg.2020.06.001

Multimodality Cardiovascular Imaging in the Midst of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Ramping Up Safely to a New Normal

JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2020 Jul;13(7):1615-1626. doi: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2020.06.001. Epub 2020 Jun 12.

Authors

William A Zoghbi¹, Marcelo F DiCarli², Ron Blankstein², Andrew D Choi³, Vasken Dilsizian⁴, Frank A Flachskampf⁵, Jeffrey B Geske⁶, Paul A Grayburn⁷, Farouc A Jaffer⁸, Raymond Y Kwong², Jonathan A Leipsic⁹, Thomas H Marwick¹⁰, Eike Nagel¹¹, Koen Nieman¹², Subha V Raman¹³, Michael Salerno¹⁴, Partho P Sengupta¹⁵, Leslee J Shaw¹⁶, Y S Chandrashekhar¹⁷; ACC Imaging Council

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardiology, Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart and Vascular Center, Houston, Texas. Electronic address: wzoghbi@houstonmethodist.org.
² Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
³ Department of Medicine, George Washington University, Washington, DC; Department of Radiology, George Washington University, Washington, DC.
⁴ Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
⁵ Clinical Physiology and Cardiology, Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
⁶ Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.
⁷ Department of Medicine, Baylor Scott and White Heart and Vascular Hospital, Dallas Texas.
⁸ Cardiovascular Center, Division of Cardiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁹ Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; Department of Radiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
¹⁰ Department of Medicine, Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
¹¹ Institute of Experimental and Translational Cardiac Imaging, German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK) Centre for Cardiovascular Imaging, University Hospital Frankfurt, Frankfurt AM Main, Germany.
¹² Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California; Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, California.
¹³ Division of Cardiology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Bloomington, Indiana.
¹⁴ Cardiovascular Division, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia.
¹⁵ Department of Medicine, West Virginia University Heart and Vascular Institute, Morgantown, West Virginia.
¹⁶ Department of Radiology, New York-Presbyterian Hospital and Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York.
¹⁷ Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota and VA Medical Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

No abstract available

Keywords: COVID-19; cardiac computer tomography; cardiac magnetic resonance; cardiovascular imaging; echocardiography; nuclear cardiology.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

COVID-19
Cardiac Imaging Techniques / methods
Cardiovascular Diseases / diagnostic imaging*
Coronavirus Infections / epidemiology*
Coronavirus Infections / prevention & control
Echocardiography, Transesophageal / methods
Echocardiography, Transesophageal / trends
Female
Forecasting
Humans
Infection Control / organization & administration
Infectious Disease Transmission, Vertical / prevention & control*
Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Cine / methods
Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Cine / trends
Male
Multimodal Imaging / methods*
Occupational Health
Pandemics / prevention & control
Pandemics / statistics & numerical data*
Patient Safety
Personal Protective Equipment / statistics & numerical data
Pneumonia, Viral / epidemiology*
Pneumonia, Viral / prevention & control
Safety Management / methods*
Safety Management / trends
United States