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COVID-19 infection is associated with significant cardiovascular complications, including myocarditis, arrhythmias, and increased arterial stiffness, driven by both direct viral injury and systemic inflammation.
This review highlights the multifaceted mechanisms of COVID-19-related heart injury, including direct viral effects and cytokine storms, and their long-term cardiovascular consequences.
Supports vigilance for post-COVID cardiac complications; leaves open long-term arterial stiffness effects on outcomes.
The article presents a review of bibliographic data on risk factors and mechanisms of the damage to the heart tissues in a new coronavirus infection. The direct viral-associated injury, as well as the influence of the components of the cytokine storm are analyzed. Myocarditis, cardiac arrhythmias are considered. In addition, the first results of long-term follow-up observations of patients who underwent COVID-19 were summarized, and the change in arterial stiffness was assessed.
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Карпунина et al. (2021) conducted a review in COVID-19 with cardiovascular involvement. COVID-19 infection was evaluated. COVID-19 infection is associated with significant cardiovascular complications, including myocarditis, arrhythmias, and increased arterial stiffness, driven by both direct viral injury and systemic inflammation.
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