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A COVID-19 Patient Presenting With Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation
The cardiovascular system is influenced in the course of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19); paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (PAF) is not uncommon in hospitalized patients with COVID-19. This is a report of an atypical presentation of a 78-year-old patient who was diagnosed with COVID-19 infection....
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8480445/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34646625 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.17569 |
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author | Nouskas, Ioannis Holeva, Vasiliki Parlapani, Eleni Nikopoulou, Vasiliki Aliki Diakogiannis, Ioannis |
author_facet | Nouskas, Ioannis Holeva, Vasiliki Parlapani, Eleni Nikopoulou, Vasiliki Aliki Diakogiannis, Ioannis |
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description | The cardiovascular system is influenced in the course of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19); paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (PAF) is not uncommon in hospitalized patients with COVID-19. This is a report of an atypical presentation of a 78-year-old patient who was diagnosed with COVID-19 infection. The patient, in the acute setting, was diagnosed with rapidly deteriorating cardiac failure associated with PAF, respiratory distress, and deteriorating vitals, and was eventually intubated. The mechanisms and preexisting substrates of atrial fibrillation in COVID-19 patients are discussed. A connection between arrhythmia and COVID-19, on the basis of a generalized inflammatory state, is suggested. This particular case adds to the understanding that the occurrence of PAF in COVID-19 patients is consistent with the mechanism of worse outcomes due to systemic inflammation. |
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spelling | pubmed-84804452021-10-12 A COVID-19 Patient Presenting With Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation Nouskas, Ioannis Holeva, Vasiliki Parlapani, Eleni Nikopoulou, Vasiliki Aliki Diakogiannis, Ioannis Cureus Cardiology The cardiovascular system is influenced in the course of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19); paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (PAF) is not uncommon in hospitalized patients with COVID-19. This is a report of an atypical presentation of a 78-year-old patient who was diagnosed with COVID-19 infection. The patient, in the acute setting, was diagnosed with rapidly deteriorating cardiac failure associated with PAF, respiratory distress, and deteriorating vitals, and was eventually intubated. The mechanisms and preexisting substrates of atrial fibrillation in COVID-19 patients are discussed. A connection between arrhythmia and COVID-19, on the basis of a generalized inflammatory state, is suggested. This particular case adds to the understanding that the occurrence of PAF in COVID-19 patients is consistent with the mechanism of worse outcomes due to systemic inflammation. Cureus 2021-08-30 /pmc/articles/PMC8480445/ /pubmed/34646625 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.17569 Text en Copyright © 2021, Nouskas et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Cardiology Nouskas, Ioannis Holeva, Vasiliki Parlapani, Eleni Nikopoulou, Vasiliki Aliki Diakogiannis, Ioannis A COVID-19 Patient Presenting With Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation |
title | A COVID-19 Patient Presenting With Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation |
title_full | A COVID-19 Patient Presenting With Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation |
title_fullStr | A COVID-19 Patient Presenting With Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation |
title_full_unstemmed | A COVID-19 Patient Presenting With Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation |
title_short | A COVID-19 Patient Presenting With Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation |
title_sort | covid-19 patient presenting with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation |
topic | Cardiology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8480445/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34646625 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.17569 |
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