Posted on 04/06/2020 4:27:53 AM PDT by DannyTN
... As more data comes in from China and Italy, as well as Washington state and New York, more cardiac experts are coming to believe the COVID-19 virus can infect the heart muscle. An initial study found cardiac damage in as many as 1 in 5 patients, leading to heart failure and death even among those who show no signs of respiratory distress.
That could change the way doctors and hospitals need to think about patients, particularly in the early stages of illness. It also could open up a second front in the battle against the COVID-19 pandemic, with a need for new precautions in people with preexisting heart problems, new demands for equipment and, ultimately, new treatment plans for damaged hearts among those who survive. ...
(Excerpt) Read more at khn.org ...
Definitely gonna need a new Flexner Report.
Sh## happens in life. Can’t be scared of everything. Printing this doesn’t change anything. I feel bad that’s so many are so afraid. They have no faith in God at all.
I think that’s what shocks me the most about this disease on this board. So many fake Christians on this board. So terrified of losing their worldly goods or their health or anything. They put no trust in God at all.
but they will live and die by human reports and statements and disclosures. Almost like pagans
Wow. In that case they need steroids. I doubt a doctor in this country is ready to throw 2 grams of SouMedrol at actively replicating viremia. No one has that kind of courage.
Back in Jan. some Chinese Dr’s were reporting patients dying of heart attacks & some of those were attributed to multiple organ failure or cytokine storm. But a few reports were of people who had been released from hospital or otherwise recovered.
So now, along with permanent lung damage, this virus may cause permanent heart damage. Not good.
This is why treatment needs to start at the first symptoms. If you wait until the patient’s lungs and heart are damaged, then you’ve waited too long.
Viral infection is a race between the reproduction rate of the virus, versus the body’s ramping up of antibody production. If you can disrupt the virus’s reproduction rate in the early stage (through hydroxychloroquine plus zinc plus azithromycin), then you give the immune system extra time to ramp up.
What, scientific researchers are immune to the avarice that rules human hearts? They must “all be respected” now, like teachers? Like even the teachers who seduce students, then get away with it because they’re hot? Please. Scientific researchers work like anyone else. For money. They go where the money goes and hire lobbyists and grant writers to get them the money, and prior history shows we likely cannot trust Kaiser Permanente with anything. Thanks, however, for going personal right off the bat.
Read the links in post #9, and think “hypoxia’s effect on the heart” (among other organ systems).
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/author/markian-hawryluk/
Trusted source?
‘I’ll bet this article put a tingle up your leg.’
damn it; I wanted to say that...
It’s. it new and it’s not 1 in 5 patients. in the critically ill vented patients they can get a myocarditis or a stress cardiomyopathy. We see this in other critically ill patients as well. Remember people are asymptomatic or have a mild case. Those that end uo in ICU tend to get all the same things we see in other ICU patients
OK armchair quarterback. Come into the hospital and start treating people You obviously know it all
Don’t bet on it. The Researchers haven’t paid for that McMansion yet.
cardiac damage was a common death following the virus in China months ago. Just figuring it out here now.
“..this effect has been a hallmark of the disease since the beginning and reported in China as well.”
Really? If so why is the media making a big deal of it just now? Could it be the scumedia has a timed release of all the horrors they can come up with just so the hysteria can be prolonged?
Nah!! They would never do that....right?
Viral infections that migrate from the lungs to infect muscle tissue can cause tissue death. When the virus eventually subsides after running its course, it will typically leave behind multiple patches of scar tissue (dead cells/myocardial infarctions) on the surface of the heart. Scar tissue cannot transmit electrical pulses from node to node to node to facilitate appropriate pumping rhythms as healthy, thriving surface heart tissue can. Rather, it tends to block such pulses. Sometimes the electrical pulses can seem to “bounce” off the scar tissue and go off in the wrong direction. With enough patches of dead heart tissue/scar tissue in place, this can easily trigger fibrillation. In young patients with otherwise strong hearts, this can manifest itself in an unexpected, massive heart attack that can easily be fatal if defibrillation equipment is not close at hand. Such victims were prime candidates for heart transplants and often did not even know it.
No. it’s long been know when it surprising
Yeah, and my butt hurts. Is the virus part of that???
Unmmm. It’s not mysterious. Glad you have something else to obsess about.
You love posting this crap don’t you? The worse you can make it, the more hysteria and panic you can promote the greater sense of power it seems you must feel.
Something seriously wrong with you...get help.
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