Российский кардиологический журнал (Jun 2020)

COVID-19 infection after recent heart transplantation: a case report

  • V. I. Vechorko,
  • I. G. Gordeev,
  • E. V. Gubareva,
  • E. V. Ryndyaeva,
  • O. V. Averkov

DOI
https://doi.org/10.15829/1560-4071-2020-3904
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 25, no. 5

Abstract

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History of heart transplantation in combination with immunosuppressive therapy and acute viral respiratory infection overlay makes the patient difficult to manage. In case of COVID-19, the setting is complicated by unknown pathogenesis, including its effect on blood, coagulation system, and lung tissue. Current case report discusses the 60-year-old patient with a COVID-19 infection occurred in the immediate postoperative period after heart transplantation.

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