Highlights the potential for complex cardiovascular and neurological complications, including silent coronary spasm and QRS fragmentation, in COVID-19 pneumonia.
COVID-19 may heighten ischemic cardiac and stroke risk in diabetics and elderly; leaves open need for prospective screening studies.
Rationale: A pandemic COVID-19 virus is a multi-systemic lethal worldwide infection. Cardiac, neurological, chest, and renal systems are frequently involved. Silent coronary artery disease is sometimes reported in diabetic and elderly patients. There is a strong correlation between COVID-19 pneumonia, thromboembolism, and ischemic heart disease. Ischemic stroke and coronary artery disease are commonly clinically recognized in COVID-19 patients who have a risk impact on both morbidity and mortality. The QRS-complex fragmentation is considered as a marker for cardiac structural diseases inducing biventricular hypertrophy or any condition interfering with the normal homogeneous depolarization status inside the myocardium.
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Yasser Mohammed Hassanain Elsayed (2022) studied this question.
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