SARS-CoV-2-related cardiovascular complications in the tropics

Tropical Medicine and Health

Letter to the Editor

Sounira Mehri¹  Josef Finsterer² 

[1] Biochemistry Laboratory, Faculty of Medicine, LR12ES05 “Nutrition-Functional Foods and Vascular Health”, Monastir, Tunisia;Neurology and Neurophysiology Center, Postfach 20, 1180, Vienna, Austria;

关键词: SARS-CoV-2;    COVID-19;    Arrhythmias;    Heart failure;    Myocarditis;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s41182-022-00474-9

 received in 2022-08-26, accepted in 2022-10-23,  发布年份 2022

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

One of the organs affected by SARS-CoV-2 is the heart. Cardiac manifestations of SARS-CoV-2 include acute coronary syndrome, endocarditis, myocarditis, pericarditis with pericardial effusion, heart failure, Takotsubo syndrome, arrhythmias, intra-ventricular thrombus formation, and cardiogenic shock. If COVID-19 patients present with cardiac complications, they require thorough cardiologic work-up, including coronary angiography if myocardial infarction or Takotsubo syndrome is suspected. Since patients with prosthetic valves and those carrying devises are prone to experience cardiac complications from a SARS-CoV-2 infection, they require particular attention and surveillance. If myocarditis is suspected, the diagnosis should be established by cardiac MRI with contrast medium or endo-myocardial biopsy.

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