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The research team led by Dr Valentina Puntmann and Professor Eike Nagel from University Hospital Frankfurt and Goethe University Frankfurt followed up around 350 study participants without previously known heart problems who had recovered from a SARS-CoV-2 infection. ....
Heart Damage Found in More Than Half of COVID-19 Patients Discharged From Hospitals MRI scan of a damaged heart. Blue means reduced blood flow, orange is good blood flow. In this figure the inferior part of the heart shows dark blue, so the myocardial blood flow is very reduced. The angiogram shows the coronary artery which supplies the blood to this part of the heart is occluded. The three colored MRI images show different slices of the heart the basal mid and apical slices. Image courtesy of European Heart Journal March 17, 2021 Around 50% of patients who have been hospitalized with severe COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) and have damage to their hearts with elevated troponin levels and ischemia and coronary blocks shown on imaging. The injury was detected by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans at least a month after discharge, according to new findings published in February in the ....