CVIA Journal

Announcing a new article publication for Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications journal.    

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), has rapidly become a global health emergency. In addition to causing respiratory effects, SARS-CoV-2 can result in cardiac involvement leading to myocardial damage, which is increasingly being explored in the literature. Myocardial injury is an important pathogenic feature of COVID-19. The angiotensin-converting enzyme-2 receptor plays a key role in the pathogenesis of the virus, serving as a “bridge” allowing SARS-CoV-2 to invade the body. However, the exact mechanism underlying how SARS-CoV-2 causes myocardial injury remains unclear. This article summarizes the main possible mechanisms of myocardial injury in patients with COVID-19, including direct myocardial cell injury, microvascular dysfunction, cytokine responses and systemic inflammation, hypoxemia, stress responses, and drug-induced myocardial injury. Understanding of the underlying mechanisms would aid in proper identification and treatment of myocardial injury in patients with COVID-19.

https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.15212/CVIA.2023.0031

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Bing Yu, Yalin Wu and Xiaosu Song et al. Possible Mechanisms of SARS-CoV2-Mediated Myocardial Injury. CVIA. 2023. Vol. 8(1). DOI: 10.15212/CVIA.2023.0031