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cord-334715-902pfxyz	Sirico, Domenico	Cardiac imaging in congenital heart disease during the coronavirus disease-2019 pandemic: recommendations from the Working Group on Congenital Heart Disease of the Italian Society of Cardiology	2020-06-01		.txt	text/plain	2547	130	41	The aim of this position paper is to provide clinical recommendation regarding the execution of imaging investigations for the cardiac diagnostic work-up of paediatric patients with suspected or confirmed infection. In particular, the Echo-Lab leading team along with referring physicians should identify all those investigations that have an urgent/emergent indication and reschedule all the elective ones, especially for patients at higher risk of infection and low priority for echocardiogram. Echocardiogram execution Echocardiographic studies performed on paediatric patients with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 should be as focused as necessary to be of any diagnostic value. In the case of an echocardiogram in a suspected or confirmed COVID-19 hospital inpatient, a bedside investigation with a portable machine in the isolated room should be preferred, avoiding moving patients within the clinic or hospital. In this setting (suspected/confirmed COVID-19 and signs of myocarditis), CMR can be performed, considering the risk/benefit ratio according to the patient's hemodynamic status and exam's therapeutic impact.	./cache/cord-334715-902pfxyz.txt	./txt/cord-334715-902pfxyz.txt