Communications Medicine (Nov 2022)

Correlation between structural heart disease and cardiac SARS-CoV-2 manifestations

  • Felix Nägele,
  • Michael Graber,
  • Jakob Hirsch,
  • Leo Pölzl,
  • Sabina Sahanic,
  • Manuel Fiegl,
  • Dominik Hau,
  • Clemens Engler,
  • Sophia Lechner,
  • Anna Katharina Stalder,
  • Kirsten D. Mertz,
  • Jasmin D. Haslbauer,
  • Alexandar Tzankov,
  • Michael Grimm,
  • Ivan Tancevski,
  • Johannes Holfeld,
  • Can Gollmann-Tepeköylü

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43856-022-00204-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Nägele, Graber et al. evaluate cardiac manifestations of SARS-CoV-2 in patients with structural heart disease. The authors find that detection of SARS-CoV-2 in heart tissue is associated with poorer survival.