Myocardial injury in severe COVID-19 is similar to pneumonias of other origin: results from a multicentre study.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

COVID-19, a respiratory viral disease causing severe pneumonia, also affects the heart and other organs. Whether its cardiac involvement is a specific feature consisting of myocarditis, or simply due to microvascular injury and systemic inflammation, is yet unclear and presently debated. Because myocardial injury is also common in other kinds of pneumonias, we investigated and compared such occurrence in severe pneumonias due to COVID-19 and other causes.

Methods and results

We analysed data from 156 critically ill patients requiring mechanical ventilation in four European tertiary hospitals, including all n = 76 COVID-19 patients with severe disease course requiring at least ventilatory support, matched to n = 76 from a retrospective consecutive patient cohort of sever

SUBMITTER: Jirak P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7835505 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature