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Corona: German researchers find dire new consequences of the virus disease - even fit people are affected

2020-12-12T04:54:11.055Z


Researchers are uncovering more and more information about Covid-19. Doctors are now warning: Heart muscle inflammation could develop even weeks after the infection has been overcome.


Researchers are uncovering more and more information about Covid-19.

Doctors are now warning: Heart muscle inflammation could develop even weeks after the infection has been overcome.

  • Persistent shortness of breath *, organs aging faster and heart damage even after a mild course of Covid-19: current studies on the long-term effects of Covid-19 are worrying researchers.

  • A new publication has now come to the conclusion that Covid 19 patients

    could

    develop heart muscle inflammation even after a mild course of the disease

    .

  • The tricky thing:

    this can still occur weeks after a coronavirus infection has been overcome,

    the researchers assume.

Coronavirus patients suffer acutely from symptoms such as fever, cough and fatigue.

Sounds like a conventional flu-like infection?

Covid-19 expresses itself in exactly the same way with some affected people, but more and more studies suggest that

long-term effects are possible after surviving infection

.

Cases have become known of those affected who suffered from chronic exhaustion or sustained heart and lung damage, which in the worst case can no longer be treated - further studies must clarify this.

Heart experts at the German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK) are also concerned with the question of what consequences Covid-19 has for the body.

In a recently published study, they came to the conclusion that a previous infection - which was not severe -

can trigger

myocarditis

.

Coronavirus infection: patients subsequently suffered from heart muscle inflammation

It is not a representative study, but case reports on two patients.

They were admitted to the clinic with suspected acute myocarditis.

"The patients at the Center for Cardiology at the Mainz University Medical Center were under 40 years of age, physically active, had a nasopharyngeal swab negative for Sars-CoV-2 and had a severe flu-like infection about four weeks prior to admission," cited focus .de Head of Studies Philip Wenzel from the University Medical Center at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. 

Further tests showed that it was not a conventional infection, but Covid-19

.

It has long been known that the heart can be involved in a coronavirus infection.

"What was special about our cases was that the virus can be found in the heart muscle through myocardial biopsy, even if the actual Covid-19 disease has already been through or has had a harmless course," said Wenzel.

Translated, this means:

Even after surviving an infection, corona patients should be vigilant and take physical signals seriously.

"Patients with heart problems should always go to a chest pain unit (CPU)," said Thomas Münzel, one of the study authors.

This is a special unit in clinics that is intended for the care of patients with acute chest pain.

Since cardiac muscle inflammation after surviving Covid-19 infection was only detected in the two patients,

further studies must follow

in order to find a causal connection between the heart disease and Covid-19.

(jg) * Merkur.de is part of the Germany-wide Ippen digital editorial network

.

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