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Severe COVID-19 After Recent Heart Transplantation Complicated by Allograft Dysfunction

A 50-year-old male presented with atrial flutter 25 days after heart and kidney transplantation. Rejection was excluded, but he developed severe COVID-19 infection with cardiac allograft dysfunction. Despite continued corticosteroid and tacrolimus therapy, he remained aviremic. Respiratory and myoca...

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Autores principales: Vilaro, Juan, Al-Ani, Mohammad, Manjarres, Diana Gomez, Lascano, Jorge E., Cherabuddi, Kartik, Elgendy, Akram Y., Bleiweiss, Mark S., Parker, Alex M., Ahmed, Mustafa M., Aranda, Juan M.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7279732/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32835277
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccas.2020.05.066
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author Vilaro, Juan
Al-Ani, Mohammad
Manjarres, Diana Gomez
Lascano, Jorge E.
Cherabuddi, Kartik
Elgendy, Akram Y.
Bleiweiss, Mark S.
Parker, Alex M.
Ahmed, Mustafa M.
Aranda, Juan M.
author_facet Vilaro, Juan
Al-Ani, Mohammad
Manjarres, Diana Gomez
Lascano, Jorge E.
Cherabuddi, Kartik
Elgendy, Akram Y.
Bleiweiss, Mark S.
Parker, Alex M.
Ahmed, Mustafa M.
Aranda, Juan M.
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description A 50-year-old male presented with atrial flutter 25 days after heart and kidney transplantation. Rejection was excluded, but he developed severe COVID-19 infection with cardiac allograft dysfunction. Despite continued corticosteroid and tacrolimus therapy, he remained aviremic. Respiratory and myocardial functions recovered after a week of mechanical ventilation. The cardiomyopathy was stress induced. (Level of Difficulty: Advanced.)
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spelling pubmed-72797322020-06-09 Severe COVID-19 After Recent Heart Transplantation Complicated by Allograft Dysfunction Vilaro, Juan Al-Ani, Mohammad Manjarres, Diana Gomez Lascano, Jorge E. Cherabuddi, Kartik Elgendy, Akram Y. Bleiweiss, Mark S. Parker, Alex M. Ahmed, Mustafa M. Aranda, Juan M. JACC Case Rep Heart Failure and Imaging A 50-year-old male presented with atrial flutter 25 days after heart and kidney transplantation. Rejection was excluded, but he developed severe COVID-19 infection with cardiac allograft dysfunction. Despite continued corticosteroid and tacrolimus therapy, he remained aviremic. Respiratory and myocardial functions recovered after a week of mechanical ventilation. The cardiomyopathy was stress induced. (Level of Difficulty: Advanced.) Elsevier 2020-06-08 /pmc/articles/PMC7279732/ /pubmed/32835277 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccas.2020.05.066 Text en © 2020 The Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
spellingShingle Heart Failure and Imaging
Vilaro, Juan
Al-Ani, Mohammad
Manjarres, Diana Gomez
Lascano, Jorge E.
Cherabuddi, Kartik
Elgendy, Akram Y.
Bleiweiss, Mark S.
Parker, Alex M.
Ahmed, Mustafa M.
Aranda, Juan M.
Severe COVID-19 After Recent Heart Transplantation Complicated by Allograft Dysfunction
title Severe COVID-19 After Recent Heart Transplantation Complicated by Allograft Dysfunction
title_full Severe COVID-19 After Recent Heart Transplantation Complicated by Allograft Dysfunction
title_fullStr Severe COVID-19 After Recent Heart Transplantation Complicated by Allograft Dysfunction
title_full_unstemmed Severe COVID-19 After Recent Heart Transplantation Complicated by Allograft Dysfunction
title_short Severe COVID-19 After Recent Heart Transplantation Complicated by Allograft Dysfunction
title_sort severe covid-19 after recent heart transplantation complicated by allograft dysfunction
topic Heart Failure and Imaging
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7279732/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32835277
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccas.2020.05.066
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