CORONA VIRUS CAUSES HEART DAMAGE IN COVID 19 PATIENTS

  • 03/03/2021

Novel coronavirus in Covid-19 patients infects cardiac muscle cells, leading to cell death which further interferes with muscle contraction, a new study has found.Many studies since the beginning of the pandemic have linked the coronavirus with heart-related problems such as reduced ability to pump blood.

However, now scientists from Washington University School of Medicine in the US say have tried to find out if these are directly caused by the virus infecting the organ, or due to inflammation elsewhere in the body.The researchers found that viral infection not only kills heart muscle cells but destroys the muscle fibre units responsible for heart muscle contraction.The scientists believe that this cell death and loss of heart muscle fibres can even occur in the absence of inflammation.

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