Three quarters of the patients cured by the coronary have heart injury

Of the 100 patients surveyed, 78 had long - term heart injuries, even though they were largely healthy before the coronary infection.

More than half a year has passed since the beginning of the coronary pandemic (COVID-19). In time, experts become more familiar with the virus, and over time it has become clear that COVID-19 attacks far more than lungs.

The new research indicates that the coronary can leave permanent heart injury as a result, even in healthy people who have previously recovered from initial symptoms.

Two new studies from Germany examined the effects of COVIDD-19 on the heart, with one focus on recovering patients and the other on elderly victims of the virus.

First Study Published in the magazine JAMA Cardiology found that three quarters of patients cured with COVID-19 had structural changes in their hearts, two months later.

Researchers examined the magnetic resonance of about 100 patients who recovered from COVID-19 between the ages of 45 and 53 and compared them to images of the MR that were not infected with the virus, but were at that good interval. Most patients with COVID-19 were cured at home, while 33 had to be hospitalised at one point.

Of 100 patients with COVID-19, 78 had structural changes in their hearts. Within this group, 76 had a biomarker usually found in patients who had had a heart attack, and 60 had heart inflammation called myocards. All patients were perfectly healthy “” before the coronary infection, researchers noted.

The two patients and we were surprised by the intensity and spread of these findings and that they are still very pronounced, although the original disease passed several weeks ago”, said study co-author Valentina Puntmann.

Another study published in the magazine JAMA Cardiology revised the autopsy records of 39 victims aged 78 to 89 who died at the beginning of the pandemic. Researchers found that the virus also touched the heart of 41% of patients.

“We see signs of viral replication in people who are severely infected,” said co-author of the Dirk Westerner study, a cardiologist at the Cardiovascular University Centre in Hamburg, in the conclusion that they still do not know the long-term consequences of genetic changes.