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cord-311871-13n4st4q	Blaivas, Michael	Unexpected finding of myocardial depression in 2 healthy young patients with COVID‐19 pneumonia: possible support for COVID‐19‐related myocarditis	2020-06-13		.txt	text/plain	1010	71	49	This article presents 2 cases of generally healthy patients who were noted to have classic COVID‐19 bilateral pneumonia findings on lung ultrasound and incidentally discovered to have unsuspected left ventricular dysfunction likely resulting from myocarditis. also been widespread recognition that lung point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is highly accurate for pneumonia diagnosis and monitoring, as well as other settings outside of COVID-19, without the high cost and radiation exposure encountered with chest CT. However, in addition to lung involvement, there are increasing anecdotal reports regarding pericardial effusions and electrical However, bilateral pleural abnormalities were found associated with scattered sub-pleural consolidations and comet tail artifacts in a distribution consistent with typical lung ultrasound findings in COVID-19 pneumonia (Video 1). These cases serve to raise the awareness of emergency physicians and others treating COVID-19 patients to consider evaluating the heart with POCUS, not just for pericardial effusion but also for left ventricular systolic function on a more routine basis.	./cache/cord-311871-13n4st4q.txt	./txt/cord-311871-13n4st4q.txt