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To evaluate the potential mechanisms underlying cardiac injury and determine common inflammatory pathways driving cardiovascular complications in hospitalized COVID-19 patients.

May 27, 2020Critical Pathways in Cardiology A Journal of Evidence-Based MedicineOpen Access

Potential Mechanisms of Cardiac Injury and Common Pathways of Inflammation in Patients With COVID-19

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To evaluate the potential mechanisms underlying cardiac injury and determine common inflammatory pathways driving cardiovascular complications in hospitalized COVID-19 patients.
Synthesized available clinical and preclinical literature regarding cardiac injury biomarkers, inflammatory markers, and postmortem findings in COVID-19.
Evaluated correlations between myocardial damage markers and systemic inflammatory responses reported across clinical cohorts.
Identified a significant, positive linear correlation between troponin T and plasma high-sensitivity C-reactive protein levels, linking heart damage directly to in-hospital mortality.
Identified four prominent pathophysiological mechanisms of myocardial damage: acute myocarditis, ACE2 receptor interaction with the Spike protein, heightened cytokine release, and hypoxia-induced apoptosis.

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Literature review uncovers multiple pathways linking systemic inflammation to cardiac injury in hospitalized COVID-19 patients, highlighting key targets for clinical management.

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Centurión et al. (2020) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a910dc251c11e6b603605c5 https://doi.org/10.1097/hpc.0000000000000227

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Literature review uncovers multiple pathways linking systemic inflammation to cardiac injury in hospitalized COVID-19 patients, highlighting key targets for clinical management.

Potential Mechanisms of Cardiac Injury and Common Pathways of Inflammation in Patients With COVID-19

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Potential Mechanisms of Cardiac Injury and Common Pathways of Inflammation in Patients With COVID-19

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