COVID-19 HEART unveiling as atrial fibrillation: pathophysiology, management and future directions for research.

ABSTRACT:

Background

COVID-19 infections are known to cause numerous systemic complications including cardiovascular disorders. In this regard, clinicians recently noticed that patients recovering from COVID-19 infections presented with diverse set of cardiovascular disorders in addition to those admitted to ICU (intensive care unit). COVID-19 heart has multifaceted presentation ranging from dysrhythmias, myocarditis, stroke, coronary artery disease, thromboembolism to heart failure. Atrial fibrillation is the most common cardiac arrhythmia among COVID-19 patients. In the background section, we briefly discussed epidemiology and spectrum of cardiac arrhythmias in COVID-19 patients.

Main body

In this state-of-the-art review we present here, we present the information regarding COVID-19

SUBMITTER: Kanuri SH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10149046 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature