Acute pericarditis and SARS-CoV-2: case report

The association between cardiovascular diseases and the new viral agent has been a matter of debate since the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic began in Wuhan, China in December 2019. This issue mainly concerned prognosis and treatment of COVID-19 in patients with cardiovascular diseases (CVD) (Zeng et al., 2020; Tian-Yuan et al., 2020). On the other hand, several studies suggested that Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome CoronaVirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) might be an independent cause of myocardial damage in some patients through pathophysiological mechanisms that have not yet been fully understood (Chen et al., 2020).
Source: International Journal of Infectious Diseases - Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Tags: Case Report Source Type: research