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The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has not left any country spared and health systems face challenges on multiple fronts. Cardiovascular disease is the world’s largest cause of morbidity and mortality. It is emerging as a common risk factor at baseline in the individuals most likely to have poor outcomes from COVID-19 infection. There is little yet known about the potential cardiac complications which may occur following COVID-19 infection, and there are many questions to be answered, whether through epidemiology and basic science or trials and pharmacology. In this blog, “The Heart in the Time of COVID-19”, WHF Emerging Leaders combine global perspective with updates of relevant the most recent science relating to cardiovascular disease and COVID-19. We hope this knowledge will be shared widely and together we can learn how to prevent and treat this disease which is truly unprecedented in its scale.
by: Amitava Banerjee and Pablo Perel
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Do COVID STEMIs have a higher thrombus burden? More questions & implications
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Cardiac rehabilitation in the time of COVID19
by:Abraham Samuel Babu Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) is an integral part of cardiovascular care. Yet, it is one of the most underutilised evidence based intervention across the world.1 With uptake to CR varying greatly around the world, the novel 2019 coronavirus (COVID19), has been no help to this. Nevertheless, this has brought the entire CR communityContinue reading “Cardiac rehabilitation in the time of COVID19”
Heart failure and COVID-19: A dynamic and changing interaction
by:Eduardo Chuquiure-Valenzuela In several COVID-19 cases, acute myocarditis results in focal or global myocardial inflammation, necrosis1. Clinically presents ventricular dysfunction and tachyarrhythmias2-3. Also, may influence in cardiac contractile worsening with a severe impact on Heart Failure (HF). It is postulated that Heart Failure risk is mediated by a decrease in myocardial oxygen supply caused byContinue reading “Heart failure and COVID-19: A dynamic and changing interaction”
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