Specialty: Dialectologist

Cardiovascular disease and COVID-19

Respiratory illness is the dominant clinical manifestation of COVID-19; CVD involvement occurs rarely. Acute cardiac injury, defined as a significant elevation of cardiac troponins, is the most commonly reported cardiac abnormality in COVID-19 affecting ~8–12% of patients. A Chinese study reported the incidence of heart failure in 52% of COVID-19 patients who subsequently died and […]