Cardiac Valves: Another “Disaster-Hit Area” of COVID-19 Patients?

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), characterized by acute respiratory failure and multiple organs damages, has been becoming a pandemic disease around the world since December 2019. The pathogen induced COVID-19 is severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) 1, 2. According the data from the World Health Organization (WHO), by 27 April, 2020, there have been 2,883,603 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 198,842 deaths3. Although respiratory failure is the main clinical character of COVID-19 patients, quite a few patients developed cardiovascular diseases, such as cardiac arrest, myocarditis and arrhythmia4.
Source: Heart and Lung - Category: Intensive Care Authors: Tags: Letters to the Editor Source Type: research