COVID-19 pandemic and cardiac imaging: EACVI recommendations on precautions, indications, prioritization, and protection for patients and healthcare personnel

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Cardiology, Oslo University Hospital, Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway.
• ² Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
• ³ Centrum voor Hart en Vaatziekten (CHVZ), Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel, Vrij Universiteit van Brussel, Brussels, Belgium.
• ⁴ Department of Cardiology, University of Medicine and Pharmacy 'Carol Davila'-Euroecolab, Emergency Institute for Cardiovascular Diseases 'Prof. Dr. C. C. Iliescu', Bucharest, Romania.
• ⁵ Department of Advanced Biomedical Sciences, Federico II University Hospital, Naples, Italy.
• ⁶ University Hospital Padua, Paediatric Cardiology, Padua, Italy.
• ⁷ University of Rennes, CHU Rennes, Inserm, LTSI-UMR 1099, Rennes, France.
• ⁸ William Harvey Research Institute, NIHR Barts Biomedical Research Centre, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.
• ⁹ Barts Heart Centre, St Bartholomew's Hospital, Barts Health NHS Trust, London, UK.
• ¹⁰ Fondazione Toscana G. Monasterio, Pisa, Italy.
• ¹¹ Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy.
• ¹² Cardiology, University Hospital Santa Maria /CHLN, CCUL, Faculty of Medicine of Lisbon University, Lisbon, Portugal.
• ¹³ Charité Medical Faculty of the Humboldt University Berlin, ECRC, Berlin, Germany.
• ¹⁴ DZHK, Partner site, Berlin, Germany.
• ¹⁵ Helios Clinics Berlin-Buch, Cardiology, Berlin, Germany.
• ¹⁶ Centre for Cardiovascular Science, University of Edinburgh, UK.
• ¹⁷ Department of Cardiovascular Imaging, Centro Cardiologico Monzino IRCCS, Milan, Italy.
• ¹⁸ Department of Cardiology, University of Baskent, Ankara, Turkey.
• ¹⁹ Division of Cardiology, Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, Cliniques Universitaires St. Luc, Pôle de Recherche Cardiovasculaire, Institut de Recherche Expérimentale et Clinique, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium.
• ²⁰ Medical Imaging Centre, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary.
• ²¹ Department of Congenital Cardiology, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK.
• ²² Department of Medical Biotechnologies, Division of Cardiology, University of Siena, Siena, Italy.
• ²³ CHU Limoges, Hôpital Dupuytren, Service Cardiologie, Limoges, France.
• ²⁴ INSERM U1094, Univ. Limoges, CHU Limoges, IRD, U1094, GEIST, 2, Limoges, France.
• ²⁵ Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine II, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.