Dr. Kazziha Talks about COVID’s Impact on the Heart
FOX 2 – As doctors learn more about the impact of coronavirus, one thing that’s emerged is the impact it has on an infected person’s heart.
“(It) increases the potential for having a heart attack or for having what we call myocarditis or inflammation of the heart,” said Dr. Samer Kazziha.
“We know that patients who are older in age who have pre-existing cardiovascular disease, will be higher risk for having some of those complications,” he said.
Dr. Samer Kazziha of Henry Ford Hospital says complications from COVID can impact the heart in several ways.
“One of the things we’ve seen in an acute setting that people can have … there is a blood test that we can do, is indicative of injury to the heart,” he said. “With the long-term effect which is not clear, yet patients have a more shortness of breath, fatigue, arrhythmia like irregular heartbeat.”
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