Covid and Heart Damage

Covid and Heart Damage

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Longitudinal Characterization Of Myocardial Injury In Acute On Chronic Heart Failure In Post-acute Covid-19 Readmissions: A Retrospective Analytic Cohort Study
Longitudinal Characterization Of Myocardial Injury In Acute On Chronic Heart Failure In Post-acute Covid-19 Readmissions: A Retrospective Analytic Cohort Study
“SARS-CoV-2 (CoV-2) myocardial injury in patients with acute on chronic heart failure (CHF) at index hospitalization has been well-characterized. Though post-acute COVID-19 (PAC) hospitalization(s) is less investigated despite evidence that CoV-2 induced inflammatory response persists for up to 3 months after initial infection.”
SARS-CoV-2 (CoV-2) myocardial injury in patients with acute on chronic heart failure (CHF) at index hospitalization has been well-characterized. Though post-acute COVID-19 (PAC) hospitalization(s) is less investigated despite evidence that CoV-2 induced inflammatory response persists for up to 3 months after initial infection.
·sciencedirect.com·
Longitudinal Characterization Of Myocardial Injury In Acute On Chronic Heart Failure In Post-acute Covid-19 Readmissions: A Retrospective Analytic Cohort Study
Coronary Implications of COVID-19 | Medical Principles and Practice | Karger Publishers
Coronary Implications of COVID-19 | Medical Principles and Practice | Karger Publishers
“Patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection carry an increased risk of cardiovascular disease encompassing various implications, including acute myocardial injury or infarction, myocarditis, heart failure, and arrhythmias. A growing volume of evidence correlates SARS-CoV-2 infection with myocardial injury, exposing patients to higher mortality risk. SARS-CoV-2 attacks the coronary arterial bed with various mechanisms including thrombosis/rupture of preexisting atherosclerotic plaque, de novo coronary thrombosis, endotheliitis, microvascular dysfunction, vasculitis, vasospasm, and ectasia/aneurysm formation.”
Patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection carry an increased risk of cardiovascular disease encompassing various implications, including acute myocardial injury or infarction, myocarditis, heart failure, and arrhythmias. A growing volume of evidence correlates SARS-CoV-2 infection with myocardial injury, exposing patients to higher mortality risk. SARS-CoV-2 attacks the coronary arterial bed with various mechanisms including thrombosis/rupture of preexisting atherosclerotic plaque, de novo coronary thrombosis, endotheliitis, microvascular dysfunction, vasculitis, vasospasm, and ectasia/aneurysm formation.
·karger.com·
Coronary Implications of COVID-19 | Medical Principles and Practice | Karger Publishers
SARS-CoV-2 Infection Association with Atherosclerotic Plaque Progression at Coronary CT Angiography and Adverse Cardiovascular Events | Radiology
SARS-CoV-2 Infection Association with Atherosclerotic Plaque Progression at Coronary CT Angiography and Adverse Cardiovascular Events | Radiology
“Patients with acute SARS-CoV-2 infection are reportedly at increased risk for future cardiovascular events; the mechanism underlying this risk remains unclear.”
Patients with acute SARS-CoV-2 infection are reportedly at increased risk for future cardiovascular events; the mechanism underlying this risk remains unclear.
·pubs.rsna.org·
SARS-CoV-2 Infection Association with Atherosclerotic Plaque Progression at Coronary CT Angiography and Adverse Cardiovascular Events | Radiology
COVID-19 and the heart: Acute and long-term treatment options
COVID-19 and the heart: Acute and long-term treatment options
“Management of acute and long-term COVID-19 cardiovascular syndrome is challenging and should involve a multidisciplinary team including cardiologists, intensive care specialists, infectious disease specialists, and cardiothoracic surgery specialists. A number of promising therapies were investigated during the pandemic. This chapter aims to review the best available data on acute and long-term treatment options of COVID-19 cardiovascular syndrome.”
Management of acute and long-term COVID-19 cardiovascular syndrome is challenging and should involve a multidisciplinary team including cardiologists, intensive care specialists, infectious disease specialists, and cardiothoracic surgery specialists. A number of promising therapies were investigated during the pandemic. This chapter aims to review the best available data on acute and long-term treatment options of COVID-19 cardiovascular syndrome.
·sciencedirect.com·
COVID-19 and the heart: Acute and long-term treatment options
Cardiac Arrhythmias and Autonomic Dysfunction Associated With COVID-19: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association | Circulation
Cardiac Arrhythmias and Autonomic Dysfunction Associated With COVID-19: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association | Circulation
Repeated Covid infections, even mild or asymptomatic, increase the risk of arrhythmias incrementally through cumulative inflammation, ANS dysfunction, and myocardial stress. Without direct studies on 2–5 infections, estimates suggest this potential rise to 8–10%(?) risk after five infections in vulnerable groups, but every C19 puts you progressively in that vulnerable group. This underscores the need to PREVENT reinfections and MONITOR cardiac health, after all mild cases.
·ahajournals.org·
Cardiac Arrhythmias and Autonomic Dysfunction Associated With COVID-19: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association | Circulation
Child, adult COVID survivors more likely to have heart disease, symptoms, data suggest | CIDRAP
Child, adult COVID survivors more likely to have heart disease, symptoms, data suggest | CIDRAP
Studies from US and Poland detail COVID's cardiovascular toll: the 1st shows that infected children face significantly higher odds of conditions like high blood pressure and heart failure; the 2nd that post-infection heart symptoms are common in adults
·cidrap.umn.edu·
Child, adult COVID survivors more likely to have heart disease, symptoms, data suggest | CIDRAP
How does Covid-19 affect your heart?
How does Covid-19 affect your heart?
“We explain what Covid-19 does to your heart and circulatory system and how it can lead to conditions such as blood clots, heart damage, palpitations and high heart rate.”
We explain what Covid-19 does to your heart and circulatory system and how it can lead to conditions such as blood clots, heart damage, palpitations and high heart rate.
·bhf.org.uk·
How does Covid-19 affect your heart?
Thread by @LauraMiers on Thread Reader App
Thread by @LauraMiers on Thread Reader App
“I’m enraged by headlines like ‘Now we know how Covid attacks your heart’ 5 years after Covid WRECKED my heart at the tender age of 38. I knew exactly how Covid attacked my heart in 2020, long before my doctors, because I followed the science. All of these are from 2020-2022.”
·threadreaderapp.com·
Thread by @LauraMiers on Thread Reader App
Chronic biopsy proven post‐COVID myoendocarditis with SARS‐Cov‐2 persistence and high level of antiheart antibodies
Chronic biopsy proven post‐COVID myoendocarditis with SARS‐Cov‐2 persistence and high level of antiheart antibodies
Chronic biopsy proven post-COVID myoendocarditis with SARS-Cov-2 persistence and high level of antiheart antibodies
Chronic biopsy proven post-COVID myoendocarditis with SARS-Cov-2 persistence and high level of antiheart antibodies
·onlinelibrary.wiley.com·
Chronic biopsy proven post‐COVID myoendocarditis with SARS‐Cov‐2 persistence and high level of antiheart antibodies
928 - In Vitro Modeling of the Effects of Impaired HDL on Atherogenesis in Long COVID Syndrome
928 - In Vitro Modeling of the Effects of Impaired HDL on Atherogenesis in Long COVID Syndrome

Study finds that HDL from Long COVID patients promotes key steps in early atherosclerosis.

Monocytes migrate more and take up more lipids, suggesting dysfunctional HDL may contribute to heart disease risk in Long COVID.

·croiconference.org·
928 - In Vitro Modeling of the Effects of Impaired HDL on Atherogenesis in Long COVID Syndrome
SPECT Perfusion Defects and Impaired Strain in Mild COVID-19: A Multimodal Imaging Study with a Female-Predominant Cohort
SPECT Perfusion Defects and Impaired Strain in Mild COVID-19: A Multimodal Imaging Study with a Female-Predominant Cohort

Even with mild symptoms during the acute phase, COVID still causes damage that gets missed with standard diagnostics.

In this study, all 15 patients had blood flow irregularities in their hearts after a COVID infection with mild symptoms.

And that's just scratching the surface.

·mdpi.com·
SPECT Perfusion Defects and Impaired Strain in Mild COVID-19: A Multimodal Imaging Study with a Female-Predominant Cohort
CCL2-mediated endothelial injury drives cardiac dysfunction in long COVID
CCL2-mediated endothelial injury drives cardiac dysfunction in long COVID
Ongoing cardiac dysfunction in Long Covid is, in part, caused by upregulation of CCL2 by inflamed endothelial cells(thrombotic vascular tissue).
·nature.com·
CCL2-mediated endothelial injury drives cardiac dysfunction in long COVID
2025, THE GROWING SARSCOV2 REINFECTION ERA! 🔥Let me summarise, with today’s science, how reinfections can worsen your Cardiovascular outcomes and mortgage your future health: ➡️Cumulative heart damage: Reinfections can worsen myocardial injury or increase the risk of… pic.twitter.com/neUQElrZhu— Harry Spoelstra (@HarrySpoelstra) February 15, 2025
2025, THE GROWING SARSCOV2 REINFECTION ERA! 🔥Let me summarise, with today’s science, how reinfections can worsen your Cardiovascular outcomes and mortgage your future health: ➡️Cumulative heart damage: Reinfections can worsen myocardial injury or increase the risk of… pic.twitter.com/neUQElrZhu— Harry Spoelstra (@HarrySpoelstra) February 15, 2025
“Let me summarise, with today’s science, how reinfections can worsen your Cardiovascular outcomes and mortgage your future health:”
·x.com·
2025, THE GROWING SARSCOV2 REINFECTION ERA! 🔥Let me summarise, with today’s science, how reinfections can worsen your Cardiovascular outcomes and mortgage your future health: ➡️Cumulative heart damage: Reinfections can worsen myocardial injury or increase the risk of… pic.twitter.com/neUQElrZhu— Harry Spoelstra (@HarrySpoelstra) February 15, 2025
Doctors Warn COVID-19 Could Be a Hidden Trigger for Heart Attacks Long After Recovery
Doctors Warn COVID-19 Could Be a Hidden Trigger for Heart Attacks Long After Recovery
“A new study reveals that COVID-19 fuels dangerous plaque buildup in the arteries, making heart attacks and strokes more likely. Even after recovery, the risk remains high, stressing the importance of ongoing heart health monitoring.”
A new study reveals that COVID-19 fuels dangerous plaque buildup in the arteries, making heart attacks and strokes more likely. Even after recovery, the risk remains high, stressing the importance of ongoing heart health monitoring.
·scitechdaily.com·
Doctors Warn COVID-19 Could Be a Hidden Trigger for Heart Attacks Long After Recovery
Frontiers | Cardiovascular outcomes in long COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Frontiers | Cardiovascular outcomes in long COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis
“This meta-analysis showed that the cardiovascular risk burden of long-term COVID-19 is significant and spans multiple categories of cardiovascular disease (ischemic and non-ischemic heart disease, arrhythmias, etc.). Care for survivors of COVID-19 after acute attack should include attention to cardiovascular health and disease.”
This meta-analysis showed that the cardiovascular risk burden of long-term COVID-19 is significant and spans multiple categories of cardiovascular disease (ischemic and non-ischemic heart disease, arrhythmias, etc.). Care for survivors of COVID-19 after acute attack should include attention to cardiovascular health and disease.
·frontiersin.org·
Frontiers | Cardiovascular outcomes in long COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis
don't get covid again whatever you do, since reinfection fin Dec and Oct, I've gone downhill badly, daily anxiety and panic, worsened pots, severe chest pain and breathlessness constantly, and crushing fatigue and leg pain, and I've found my heart has enlargement on one side.
don't get covid again whatever you do, since reinfection fin Dec and Oct, I've gone downhill badly, daily anxiety and panic, worsened pots, severe chest pain and breathlessness constantly, and crushing fatigue and leg pain, and I've found my heart has enlargement on one side.
“don't get covid again whatever you do, since reinfection in Dec and Oct, I've gone downhill badly, daily anxiety and panic, worsened pots, severe chest pain and breathlessness constantly, and crushing fatigue and leg pain, and I've found my heart has enlargement on one side.”
·x.com·
don't get covid again whatever you do, since reinfection fin Dec and Oct, I've gone downhill badly, daily anxiety and panic, worsened pots, severe chest pain and breathlessness constantly, and crushing fatigue and leg pain, and I've found my heart has enlargement on one side.
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“In conclusion, SARS-CoV-2 has a profound and multifaceted impact on cardiac tissue, mediated primarily through the Spike protein's interaction with the ACE2 receptor.”

“The virus not only causes direct damage to the heart by infecting cardiomyocytes but also triggers significant systemic effects that can exacerbate preexisting cardiovascular conditions.”

“The extensive expression of ACE2 in heart cells underpins the high susceptibility of cardiac tissues to SARS-CoV-2, leading to a range of complications from myocarditis to severe myocardial dysfunction.”

·biomed.cas.cz·
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