COVID-19 and cardiovascular disease
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a spectrum of disease spanning from a barely symptomatic infection to critical illness, is caused by the new coronavirus - severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Although lung injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome have been at a ce...
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| description | Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a spectrum of disease spanning from a barely symptomatic infection to critical illness, is caused by the new coronavirus - severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Although lung injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome have been at a centre stage as the most dreadful complications of COVID-19, the heart damage has recently emerged as yet another grim outcome in the virus’s repertoire of possible complications. The cardiac involvement occurs as a direct invasion of cardiomyocytes by the virus via the angiotensin‐converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) receptors and also indirectly by the inflammatory reaction due to cytokine storm. COVID-19 increases the severity of an already pre-existing heart disease and also unmasks the cardiac symptoms in a previously undiagnosed heart disease as well. Apart from this the drugs that are repurposed and are supposed to have a preventive or a therapeutic potential are also supposedly causing cardiac side effects. In the absence of substantial database all these seem to be a hypothetical correlation and one needs to rely on clinical skills and acumen. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-80d35906a605431a85db1467eba23c8c2022-12-21T17:16:01ZengKIMS Foundation and Research CenterJournal of Medical and Scientific Research2321-13262394-112X2020-12-018S1697310.17727/JMSR.2020/8S1-8COVID-19 and cardiovascular diseaseSuri P0Arora V1SGL Superspeciality Hospital, Jalandhar, Punjab-144022, IndiaCardiac Electrophysiology Laboratory & Arrhythmia Services, Max Healthcare Superspeciality Hospital, Saket, New Delhi-110017, India Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a spectrum of disease spanning from a barely symptomatic infection to critical illness, is caused by the new coronavirus - severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Although lung injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome have been at a centre stage as the most dreadful complications of COVID-19, the heart damage has recently emerged as yet another grim outcome in the virus’s repertoire of possible complications. The cardiac involvement occurs as a direct invasion of cardiomyocytes by the virus via the angiotensin‐converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) receptors and also indirectly by the inflammatory reaction due to cytokine storm. COVID-19 increases the severity of an already pre-existing heart disease and also unmasks the cardiac symptoms in a previously undiagnosed heart disease as well. Apart from this the drugs that are repurposed and are supposed to have a preventive or a therapeutic potential are also supposedly causing cardiac side effects. In the absence of substantial database all these seem to be a hypothetical correlation and one needs to rely on clinical skills and acumen.http://jmsronline.com/article.aspx?ID=COVID-19-and-cardiovascular-diseasecovid-19sars-cov-2cardiovascular diseaseacute respiratory distress syndrome |
| spellingShingle | Suri P Arora V COVID-19 and cardiovascular disease Journal of Medical and Scientific Research covid-19 sars-cov-2 cardiovascular disease acute respiratory distress syndrome |
| title | COVID-19 and cardiovascular disease |
| title_full | COVID-19 and cardiovascular disease |
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| title_short | COVID-19 and cardiovascular disease |
| title_sort | covid 19 and cardiovascular disease |
| topic | covid-19 sars-cov-2 cardiovascular disease acute respiratory distress syndrome |
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