A recent German study revealed that the emerging corona virus can affect the heart as well.
Supervisor of the study conducted by the university hospital «Hamburg - Gobndorf», Dirk Westermann, said today, Friday, in Hamburg that the new Corona virus can infect the heart cells and multiply there.
He added that the virus is also able to alter the genetic activity of the affected heart cells.
On the other hand, the study did not explain whether this has effects on the pathological pathology of heart patients.
A university hospital statement said that the changing activity of genes in heart cells could have long-term consequences for the health of the injured. The study confirmed the necessity of conducting a series of examinations on corona patients in the future.
The university hospital conducted the study on 39 deceased heart patients after they developed the new coronavirus, whose average age was 85 years.
The researchers were able to monitor the virus in heart tissue in about two thirds of patients.
In a statement to the university hospital, the researchers found that in 16 cases, the virus was found in quantities that may have clinical effects. The study is scheduled to be published in the journal “Gamma Cardiology”.