Nearly 12 percent of corona patients in the hospital develop heart complications. This is evident from a study among 3,011 corona patients, almost all of whom were in a Dutch hospital. It is the world’s largest study of heart complications in corona patients.
‘Disturbing’
“It is alarming that corona can be associated with problems in the cardiovascular system,” says Floris Italianer, director of the Hartstichting, who supported the study. risk of being seriously affected by the corona virus.
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Almost a third of the patients already had cardiovascular disease before admission to hospital. More than 60 percent of the patients in the study were male, and the mean age was 67 years.
Atrial fibrillation
Atrial fibrillation is the most common heart complication in corona patients in the hospital. This happened in 142 patients (4.7 percent). Serious heart complications are less common.
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Heart failure was diagnosed in 55 patients, myocardial infarction in 15 patients, cardiac arrhythmias that can lead to cardiac arrest in 14 people and inflammation of the heart in 8 patients. Almost 200 patients (6.6 percent) developed a pulmonary embolism. The latter happens more often in critically ill patients in intensive care.
Deaths
During the hospital stay, 595 patients died, 16 of them from heart problems. They stayed in hospital for an average of 7 days. Those who ended up in intensive care were there for an average of 13 days. Follow-up research must also reveal how many patients get and keep complications in the long term, even after admission to hospital.
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