Myocardial fibrosis after COVID-19 infection and severe sinus arrest episodes in an asymptomatic patient with mild sleep apnea syndrome: A case report and review of the literature

COVID-19 infection is a new disease mainly affecting the respiratory system but is also accompanied by many extra-pulmonary manifestations. A case of a 47-year old male with unique myocardial fibrosis after COVID-19 infection involving the left ventricular wall, intraventricular septum and almost co...

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Autores principales: Lampropoulos, Christos E., Mavrogeni, Sophie, Dervas, Agisilaos, Manios, Efstathios, Chatzidou, Sofia, Kontogiannis, Christos, Spiliopoulou, Sotiria, Melliou, Stamatoula, Kalogianni, Emmanouela, Papaioannou, Ioanna
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7889031/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33619450
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2021.101366
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Sumario:COVID-19 infection is a new disease mainly affecting the respiratory system but is also accompanied by many extra-pulmonary manifestations. A case of a 47-year old male with unique myocardial fibrosis after COVID-19 infection involving the left ventricular wall, intraventricular septum and almost complete damage of interatrial septum, in combination with asymptomatic severe sinus arrest episodes related to mild obstructive sleep apnea syndrome is described here.

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