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COVID-19 patients at risk for heart complications – LabPulse
Patients who have recovered from COVID-19 disease may be at risk for heart complications, according to a study of high-sensitivity troponin T levels and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging conducted by German researchers and published July 27 in JAMA Cardi…
The study findings suggest yet another facet of the illness that must be tracked, wrote a team led by Dr. Valentina Puntmann, PhD, of University Hospital Frankfurt in Germany.
“[In our study], cardiac magnetic resonance imaging revealed cardiac involvement in 78 patients (78%) and ongoing myocardial inflammation in 60 patients (60%),” the group wrote. “These findings indicate the need for ongoing investigation of the long-term cardiovascular consequences of COVID-19.”
Thus far, most research o…
