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. 2021:1318:263-291.
doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-63761-3_16.

COVID-19 and Cardiovascular Diseases

Babak Geraiely  1 , Niloufar Samiei  2 , Parham Sadeghipour  3 , Azita H Talasaz  4 , Seyedeh Hamideh Mortazavi  4 , Roya Sattarzadeh Badkoubeh  5
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COVID-19 and Cardiovascular Diseases

Babak Geraiely et al. Adv Exp Med Biol. 2021.

Abstract

We herein seek to expound on up-to-the-minute information regarding cardiovascular disease in the era of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) by highlighting acute myocardial injury caused by COVID-19 and probing into its pathophysiology, clinical signs, diagnostic tests, and treatment modalities. We aim to share the latest research findings vis-à-vis cardiovascular disease patients with confirmed or suspected COVID-19 on the association between hypertension and this infectious disease along with the relevant recommendations; describe the mechanism of coronary artery disease in such patients together with the necessary measures in the setting of non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndrome, ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction, and chronic coronary syndrome; discuss tachy- and bradyarrhythmias in the COVID-19 setting alongside their treatments; elucidate coagulopathies, venous thromboembolism, and its prophylactic measures in the context of this infection; set out the cardiopulmonary resuscitation protocol as well as the pertinent safety concerns during the current pandemic; and, finally, explicate drug-drug interactions between COVID-19 and cardiovascular medication in hypertension, acute coronary syndrome, heart failure, venous thromboembolism, and arrhythmias.

Keywords: COVID-19; Cardiovascular disease; Outbreak; SARS-CoV-2.

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