Doctors are reporting injuries to the heart in COVID-19 patients -- from heart attack and inflammation of the heart muscle to potentially fatal heart arrhythmias.
But those severe infections are not only damaging people's lungs. Doctors are also seeing injuries to the heart -- fromThe precise causes are still being sorted out. And they could be both"direct and indirect," said Dr. Sahil Parikh, a cardiologist at Columbia University Irving Medical Center in New York City.
The coronavirus has proteins that attach to certain receptors in lungs. As it happens, blood vessel cells have those same receptors, Bonow explained. It's thought that the infection may sometimes directly damage blood vessels, which can cause blood clots that lead to a heart attack.The cause is unclear, with some researchers speculating the coronavirus may sometimes directly infect the heart. But at this point, Parikh said, actual evidence of that"isn't great.
"It's hard to say what the percentages are," he said,"but a similar spectrum [of heart complications] is being seen." "People dying of cardiac arrest at home are victims of COVID-19," Parikh said,"though not necessarily directly." Askew acknowledged that when those patients arrive at the hospital, it can be difficult to know if it's a heart attack or COVID-19.
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