A study published yesterday in JAMA has the skeptical cardiologist very concerned about the long-term cardiac effects of COVID-19 infection. The investigators performed cardiac MRI (CMR) on 100 patients with documented COVID-19. Cardiac MRI is now considered the gold-standard for noninvasively measuring pathologic changes in cardiac muscle. In this study of a cohort of German…
via It’s Now Time to Worry About Long-Term Cardiac Consequences of COVID-19 — The Skeptical Cardiologist
Thank you Dr. Pearson.
And the following is a link to the Medscape article:
Heart Damage Even After COVID-19 ‘Recovery’ Evokes Specter of Later Heart Failure
