COVID-19 Patients May Present with Myocarditis: A Case Report Emphasizing the Cardiac Involvement of SARS-CoV-2

Overview

Journal Med J Islam Repub Iran

Specialty General Medicine

Date 2021 Dec 27

PMID 34956950

Citations 3

Authors

Ebrahim Salavati

Hamidreza Hajirezaee

Hamid Reza Niazkar

Muhammad Sadegh Ramezani

Alireza Sargazi

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Abstract

The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which was declared to be pandemic on March 12, 2020, is the latest health concern worldwide. COVID-19 patients may develop cerebrovascular complications either during the course of COVID-19 or even as an initial presentation of the disease. Herein, a case of myocarditis in a COVID-19 patient without any respiratory signs and symptoms is presented.

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