Authors: Julian Conradson Published April 25, 2022 at 4:14pm A new study out of Europe has revealed that cases of heart inflammation that required hospitalization were much more common among vaccinated individuals […]
Prevalence of organ impairment in Long COVID patients 6 and 12 months after initial symptoms
Authors: Pooja Toshniwal PahariaMar 24 2022Reviewed by Danielle Ellis, B.Sc. In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server, researchers assessed the prevalence of organ impairment in long coronavirus disease 2019 […]
SARS-CoV-2 mRNA Vaccination-Associated Myocarditis in Children Ages 12-17: A Stratified National Database Analysis
Authors: RALPH TURCHIANO SEPTEMBER 8, 2021 • Abstract Establishing the rate of post-vaccination cardiac myocarditis in the 12-15 and 16-17-year-old population in the context of their COVID-19 hospitalization risk is critical […]
Colchicine: A Possible COVID-19 Long haul Cardiac Therapy
Last Updated: December 16, 2021 Last Updated: December 16, 2021 Colchicine is an anti-inflammatory drug that is used to treat a variety of conditions, including gout, recurrent pericarditis, and familial Mediterranean fever.1 Recently, […]
The Role of Colchicine in Pericardial Syndromes
Authors: George Lazaros 1, Massimo Imazio 2, Antonio Brucato 3, Charalambos Vlachopoulos 1, Emilia Lazarou 1, Dimitrios Vassilopoulos 4, Dimitris Tousoulis 1PMID: 29336245 DOI: 10.2174/1381612824666180116101823 Curr Pharm Des . 2018;24(6):702-709. doi: 10.2174/1381612824666180116101823. Abstract Background: Colchicine is an old drug originally employed for the treatment of inflammatory disorders […]
Electrocardiographic Changes in COVID-19 Patients: A Hospital-based Descriptive Study
Authors: Deepalakshmi Kaliyaperumal,1Kumar Bhargavi,2Karthikeyan Ramaraju,3Krishna S Nair,4Sudha Ramalingam,5 and Murali Alagesan6 Indian J Crit Care Med. 2022 Jan; 26(1): 43–48.doi: 10.5005/jp-journals-10071-24045PMCID: PMC8783240PMID: 35110843 Abstract Background Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) infection is a multisystem disease not restricted […]
Five months post-covid, Nicole Murphy’s heart rate is still doing strange things
Authors: Ariana Eunjung Cha February 21, 2022 Five months after being infected with the coronavirus, Nicole Murphy’s pulse rate is going berserk. Normally in the 70s, which is ideal, it […]
Long COVID Could Be Linked to the Effects of SARS-CoV-2 on the Vagus Nerve
Authors: EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES FEBRUARY 11, 2022 New research to be presented at this year’s European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID 2022, Lisbon, April […]
Heart-disease risk soars after COVID — even with a mild case
Authors: Saima May Sidik 10 February 2022 Massive study shows a long-term, substantial rise in risk of cardiovascular disease, including heart attack and stroke, after a SARS-CoV-2 infection. Even a […]
Association of Myocarditis With BNT162b2 Messenger RNA COVID-19 Vaccine in a Case Series of Children
Authors: Audrey Dionne, MD1,2; Francesca Sperotto, MD1,2; Stephanie Chamberlain1,2; et alAnnette L. Baker, MSN, CPNP1,2; Andrew J. Powell, MD1,2; Ashwin Prakash, MD1,2; Daniel A. Castellanos, MD1,2; Susan F. Saleeb, MD1,2; Sarah D. de Ferranti, MD, MPH1,2; Jane W. Newburger, MD, MPH1,2; Kevin G. Friedman, MD1,2 JAMA Cardiol. 2021;6(12):1446-1450. doi:10.1001/jamacardio.2021.347 Question What are the findings on cardiac imaging in children with myocarditis after COVID-19 […]