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. ...
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leading to heart failure and death even among those who show no signs of respiratory distress.
This coronavirus kills a lot of folks that the flu wouldn’t.
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.
Bingo!
You are incorrect. ARDS can be cause by any viral agent. You are higher risk with more comorbidities. I have seen an awful lot of non CoVId cases in my time influenza and other respiratory tract infection where the risk is heart disease and leads to the exact same pathology and pathophysiology.
So heart disease which has been around for thousands of years, is now the fault of coronavirus?
Give me a break!
What did these fools do before the cronavirus hysteria was manufactured?
I will go you one further null.... until there is a vaccine high risk individuals should be on prophylaxis with plaquenil.
I am guessing there are a whole lot of front line docs taking plaquenil according to the royal college of India protocol.
“So now, along with permanent lung damage, this virus may cause permanent heart damage. Not good.”
Maybe not permanent. What I experienced in January was like a tearing of the heart muscle when I exerted. Rather painful and bewildering to experience that. Ten weeks later the heart muscle is still recovering. It’s a different pain from the quad bypass pain. Duller and wider. Magnesium, potassium and vitamin E supplements have really helped the healing.
The best comparison I can make is it’s like a tearing a hamstring. The pain is deep and lingering. It slowly subsides but exertion flares it back. Three steps forward, one step back type of healing.
I’ll tell you what. Why don’t you and Danny from TN go find a nice I populated area declare independence and stop bothering the rest of us.
Meanwhile in NY deaths are down and there was a ton of discharges from the hospitals in NYC this weekend.
But let’s look at a village in remote Ecuador to fear monger.
It’s. it new and it’s not 1 in 5 patients.
“HHS has access to 10 million doses of the drug. Where is the beef?”
From what I’ve been reading, a major argument against handing out hydroxychloroquine to almost anyone (which is what more & more of the general public seem to think should be done) is that it causes a shortage for people who are currently relying on it daily for malaria, Lupus, arthritis, etc. If a million people want the drug for COVID-19 illness, that 10 million doses won’t go far.
I think you’re right about that Doc.
But I’d be afraid to take a steroid with such an aggressive virus.
HX AMI 2018, DM2.
Although, I do like steroids for my arthritis.
There probably plueriitic pain
Really? If so why is the media making a big deal of it just now?
Know a lot of Doctors, do ya?
Amazingly, more can be made.
Your lack of compassion speaks volumes and I’m not a fearper
I believe what you’re describing is different from what the article is talking about.
“Amazingly, more can be made.”
If it were that easy, Trump wouldn’t be asking the Indians to share their supply.
Guayaquil, Ecuador is not a “remote village.” It’s a city of 3 million, and the biggest port on the west coast of South America, “The Gateway to the Pacific Rim” for that continent.
I posted #58 as a stark and grim contrast to what is happening in a First World city with proper medical infrastructure in place.
Guayaquil is what happens when Covid-19 runs wild in 3rd World slums with nearly no modern medical infrastructure.
Do you get the contrast between situations? It’s the same virus, dropped into 2 different environments.
Why do you mock the comparison? Are you incapable of learning from different situations?
Are you really a physician?
Do you mock poor patients who can’t afford treatment, and kick them to the curb, the way you mock the dying and suffering in Guayaquil?
And what happens in Guayaquil may be setting up a pattern for all of South America and the Third World.
But you don’t give a s#it, evidently, as long as your county is doing okay.
No, definitely not plueriitic pain. It came in with the ‘mystery virus’ and was one of two symptoms that led me to call 911. In the hospital they said the virus was attacking my lungs, heart and other organs and that my heart was swollen. A heart stress chemical that is normally 0.009 in the blood measured 1.9. So they recorded an MI in my condition. Any exertion made it feel like the heart was tearing. It’s much improved since getting out but it’s like a badly torn muscle. So I take it easy and rest often.
Pneumonia drills holes into the heart...
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