A new Chinese study announced that one out of every five patients with "Covid-19" suffers from a deficiency of the heart muscle, sometimes heart failure, and possibly sudden death.
19% of 416 patients in hospitals showed signs of cardiomyopathy, half of them died from illness and only 4.5% recovered, and Italian doctors published a report on coronary heart disease-related injuries, and found a 53-year-old man without previous diseases with myositis The heart after a week of fever and dry cough due to «Covid-19». According to the "Observatory of the Future", affiliated with Dubai Future Foundation.
The New York Times published a report on a 64-year-old patient in Brooklyn who was hospitalized for treating an arterial blockage, and doctors discovered that the patient had not had a heart attack, but rather a coronavirus.
We know that the lungs of Covid-19 patients are affected by the SARS-Cove-2 virus, and the focus has been on respiratory problems and a lack of artificial respirators in hospitals.
"We were only thinking about the lungs, and suddenly we started hearing about the direct effect on the heart," said John Rumsfeld, chief science officer at the American College of Cardiology.
The new news has puzzled cardiologists in their attempt to understand the effect of Covid-19 on cardiomyopathy and the best method of treatment.
"It is important to answer the following question: Is the heart affected by the virus and can we do something?" Cardiology specialist Ulrich Jordi said. Maybe our intervention will save many lives in the end. ”
We do not yet know how the heart is infected, is it a correlation or causation, does the body's reaction to the virus cause heart problems, or are they the problems originally caused by the virus. Therefore, people with heart diseases are more at risk.
"In general, damage to the heart muscle is possible in any patient, whether with or without heart attacks, but those with heart disease are more at risk, of course," said Dr. Majeed, Assistant Professor in the Department of Cardiology at McGovern University, Muhammad Majeed, speaking to Science Daily.
Scientists have several guesses about the relationship between the virus and inflammation of the heart muscle. High amounts of cytokines may lead to enlarged lungs and the heart, due to the breakdown of the body's immune system, as reported by The New York Times.
The cause may be a large amount of viruses, according to Scientific American. Examining patients to determine the cause seems elusive. Hospitals do not have sufficient electrocardiographs to screen isolated patients. But discovering the relationship between the virus and the cardiac muscle may be important in finding a cure for a pandemic.
"Maybe we should assume that the virus affects the heart directly, but it is necessary to make sure of it categorically," Jordi said.