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The heart and the COVID-19: what are the lessons learnt?

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  1. Department of Medical Imaging, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Bernd J. Wintersperger

  2. University Medical Imaging Toronto, Peter Munk Cardiac Centre, Toronto General Hospital, 1 PMB-273, 585 University Avenue, Toronto, ON, M5G 2N2, Canada

    Bernd J. Wintersperger

  3. Department of Radiology, LMU University Hospital, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany

    Felix Escher & Nicola Fink

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Dr. Wintersperger has received research support and speaker’s honorarium from Siemens Healthineers and has provided consultation to Bayer AG. Dr. Wintersperger is an inventor of the IG fitting method for T1 mapping owned by UHN (US10314548B2) and receives non-financial research support by Siemens Healthineers. University Health Network has a Master Research Agreement with Siemens Healthineers.

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Wintersperger, B.J., Escher, F. & Fink, N. The heart and the COVID-19: what are the lessons learnt?. Eur Radiol 33, 8442–8444 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00330-023-09976-4

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