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'Cardio-COVID': Amal Mattu on COVID-19 and Matters of the Heart

from Medscape

'Cardio-COVID': Amal Mattu on COVID-19 and Matters of the Heart Medscape We've known that COVID-19 has profound pulmonary manifestations and can produce respiratory failure and acute respiratory distress syndrome. In recent months, however, we started hearing anecdotal reports from physicians in China and Italy about many of their patients who were not dying from pulmonary problems or hypoxemia. In fact, some would begin to show improvement from a pulmonary standpoint, but then, at around day 7 to 10 of symptoms, their condition would rapidly deteriorate because of deteriorating cardiac function. In order to provide guidance to cardiologists and emergency physicians, the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, the American College of Cardiology, and the American College of Emergency Physicians have recently published a consensus statement on the management of acute myocardial infarction during the COVID-19 pandemic. READ MORE

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