COVID-19's Damage to Organs Can Harm Heart, Too

[sybylla]

https://www.medicinenet.com/covid19_damage_to_organs_can_harm_heart_too/news.htm

"COVID-19 can damage a person's heart even if the coronavirus doesn't directly infect the heart tissue, a new study has found.

The severe inflammation that COVID causes in other organs, like the lungs, appears to indirectly cause heart damage associated with the infection, researchers report.

“After a COVID infection, the immune system can inflict remote damage on other organs by triggering serious inflammation throughout the body – and this is in addition to damage the virus itself has directly inflicted on the lung tissue,” senior author Dr. Matthais Nahrendorf, a professor of radiology at Harvard Medical School, said in a news release.

For the study, researchers analyzed heart tissue samples taken from 21 patients who died with COVID-related lung failure. These samples were compared to specimens from 33 patients who died from causes unrelated to COVID...."

This may not be news to most of you, but I thought it was worth sharing.

I lost a friend, aged 55, last summer to what was likely a post-covid heart condition. She was fully vaxed, as far as I knew. She couldn't see her grandbabies if she wasn't.

I wish people took this virus more seriously.

[bahboo]

1. I can vouch for that...

had a nasty case of Covid, later was diagnosed with Afib. Then my thyroid went haywire. Had a real nasty year, but am doing better. Can't prove it of course, but the timing sure is suspicious....and yes, I was fully vaxxed at the time.

[sybylla]

2. You have company.

FOUR of my husbands 7 siblings ended up with afib after a covid infection and all of them have had surgery for it.

My husband had it and thankfully has no such symptoms 7 months later.

Edited to add that I hope you are feeling much better soon.

[bahboo]

4. yes...thanks!

had an ablation last August, and doing much better. Also the thyroid has calmed down.