Publication Date

11-1-2022

Journal

The Texas Heart Journal

DOI

10.14503/THIJ-20-7488

PMID

36450145

Publication Date(s)

September 2022

Language

English

PMCID

PMC9809098

PubMedCentral® Posted Date

11-30-2022

PubMedCentral® Full Text Version

Post Print

Published Open-Access

yes

Keywords

Male, Humans, Adult, Embolic Stroke, Cardiomyopathy, Dilated, COVID-19, Heart, Myocarditis

Abstract

COVID-19 is a novel disease with multisystem involvement, but most patients have pulmonary and cardiovascular involvement in the acute stages. The cardiovascular impact of acute COVID-19 is well recognized and ranges from myocarditis, arrhythmias, and thrombotic occlusion of coronary arteries to spontaneous coronary artery dissection and microthrombi in small coronary vessels on autopsy. We report a case of a 37-year-old man who recovered from mild COVID-19 only to present a few weeks later with devastating cardiovascular involvement that included severe left ventricular impairment resulting from nonischemic cardiomyopathy, multiple left ventricular thrombi, and embolic stroke.

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