2 new studies just published in JAMA Cardiology found evidence that the Covid-19 coronavirus can make it to your heart
A majority of these autopsies revealed evidence of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 in the heart. Of these 24 cases, 16 had more than 1000 copies per microgram of viral RNA, suggesting that there were quite significant amounts of the virus. In fact, in the five cases with the highest viral load, even when the heart didn’t go on, the virus did. These viruses were still replicating, which means that they were still reproducing or essentially doing the viral version of the nasty.
Nevertheless, the MRIs did show that 78% of the patients had some type of abnormality in their hearts. These ranged from signs of inflammation to enlarged left ventricles to decreased ability of the heart to pump blood to the rest of the body. Many of these findings were consistent with patients having myocarditis or pericarditis.
What’s pericarditis? It’s not two carditises but instead inflammation of the pericardium, the membranous sac that encases your heart. It essentially is a bag around your heart. Inflammation of this bag can interfere with your heart rhythm and function too.... [+]Myopericarditis is when you have both pericarditis and myocarditis. Not a good two-for-one deal to have.
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