COVID-19 is still lingering in the hearts of the recovered patients for months without developing any symptoms, according to medical experts. According to NBC News' latest report, the novel coronavirus may still have lasting effects on the heart health of the patients, which may go undetected, leading people to assume that they have recovered from the deadly disease.
In India, recovered Covid-19 patients are returning to hospitals with heart problems or lung damage pic.twitter.com/Nqxk4t2rF8 — Md Dilshad Ali (@Maximus_208) July 22, 2020
"Our findings may provide an indication of the potentially considerable burden of inflammatory disease in large and growing parts of the population," wrote the study authors.
39 autopsies of the patients who died from the virus were observed in the second study. The researchers found evidence of COVID-19 in the heart tissue in 24 of the 39 patients, mostly in their 80s. It was also discovered that five of those patients developed signs that the virus is actually multiplying in the heart tissue.
Dr. Matthew Belford, an interventional cardiologist at Wake Forest Baptist Health in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, said that there is evidence showing that COVID-19 can also penetrate inside the heart, causing an inflammatory response--this making medical experts wonder.
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Written by: Giuliano de Leon.
