The Imperfect Cytokine Storm

Vinh Q. Chau, MD; Estefania Oliveros, MD; Kiran Mahmood, MD; Aditi Singhvi, MD; Anuradha Lala, MD; Noah Moss, MD; Umesh Gidwani, MD; Donna M. Mancini, MD; Sean P. Pinney, MD; Aditya Parikh, MD

JACC: Case Reports (Jul 2020)

The Imperfect Cytokine Storm

Vinh Q. Chau, MD,
Estefania Oliveros, MD,
Kiran Mahmood, MD,
Aditi Singhvi, MD,
Anuradha Lala, MD,
Noah Moss, MD,
Umesh Gidwani, MD,
Donna M. Mancini, MD,
Sean P. Pinney, MD,
Aditya Parikh, MD

Affiliations

Vinh Q. Chau, MD: Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York
Estefania Oliveros, MD: Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York
Kiran Mahmood, MD: Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York
Aditi Singhvi, MD: Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York
Anuradha Lala, MD: Address for correspondence: Dr. Anuradha Lala, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, One Gustave L. Levy Place, Box 1030, New York, New York 10029.; Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York
Noah Moss, MD: Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York
Umesh Gidwani, MD: Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York
Donna M. Mancini, MD: Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York
Sean P. Pinney, MD: Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York
Aditya Parikh, MD: Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York

Journal volume & issue: Vol. 2, no. 9
pp. 1315 – 1320

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As health systems worldwide grapple with the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, patients with durable LVAD support represent a unique population at risk for the disease. This paper outlines the case of such a patient who developed COVID-19 complicated by a “cytokine storm” with severe acute respiratory distress syndrome and myocardial injury and describes the challenges that arose during management.

Published in JACC: Case Reports

ISSN: 2666-0849 (Online)
Publisher: Elsevier
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Specialties of internal medicine: Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system
Website: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/jacc-case-reports

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