Those who develop a serious course of disease due to COVID-19 infection usually need treatment in a hospital.
One of the complications you can get due to COVID-19 infection is inflammation of the heart muscle.
This condition is called myocarditis and can cause symptoms such as palpitations, difficulties breathing, disturbance of the heart rhythm and pressure on the chest.
In a new study from the University of Oslo, researchers found a good reason for optimism regarding cardiac function after undergoing COVID-19.
The study involved 92 patients who had been hospitalized with COVID-19 infection. The average age of the participants was 59 years and a little less than half were women.
The team found that heart function was normal in most people a few months after having been hospitalized with a COVID-19 infection.
Nevertheless, there was a small change in heart function in some of the patients. These patients had impaired left ventricular function, i.e. the left part of the heart muscle functioned less good than what is normally the case.
In most people, this was due to high blood pressure or heart disease that the patients had before they became infected with the coronavirus. However, this did not apply to everyone.
Hypertensive heart disease is caused by high blood pressure over time, and reduces the heart’s ability to pump blood around the body. However, this disease did not explain the reduced cardiac function in six patients.
The team says that the change in heart function can be a consequence of complications related to COVID-19.
It is important to identify and follow-up patients who have changed heart function after undergoing COVID-19, since some may need to start with heart medication.
None of the patients who participated in the present study needed heart medication.
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One researcher of the study is Jorun Tangen.
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