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Long-term cardiac pathology in individuals with mild initial COVID-19 illness - Nature Medicine

Long-term cardiac pathology in individuals with mild initial COVID-19 illness - Nature Medicine

Source : https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-02000-0

Cardiac symptoms are increasingly recognized as late complications of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection in previously well individuals with mild initial illness, but the underlying pathophysiology leading to long-term cardiac symptoms remains unclear.


Ongoing inflammatory cardiac involvement may, at least in part, explain the lingering cardiac symptoms in previously well individuals with mild initial COVID-19 illness.