Cardiovascular manifestations secondary to COVID-19: A narrative review.

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has spread rapidly, becoming a major threat to global health. In addition to having required the adaptation of healthcare workers for almost 2 years, it has been much talked about, both in the media and among the scientific community. Beyond lung damage and respiratory symptoms, the involvement of the cardiovascular system largely explains COVID-19 morbimortality. In this review, we emphasize that cardiovascular involvement is common and is associated with a worse prognosis, and that earlier detection by physicians should lead to better management. First, direct cardiac involvement will be discussed, in the form of COVID-19 myocarditis, then secondary cardiac involvement, such as myocardial injury, myocardial infarction and arrhythmias, will be considered. Finally, worsening of previous cardiovascular disease as a result of COVID-19 will be examined, as well as long-term COVID-19 effects and cardiovascular complications of COVID-19 vaccines.

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Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest concerning this article. Dr Fauvel reports grants from Pfizer and consulting fees from Janssen, outside the submitted work. Prof Cohen acknowledges the following without any relationship to the current manuscript: research grant from RESICARD (research nurses); and consultant and lecture fees from the companies Amgen, AstraZeneca, Bayer Pharma, Alliance BMS- Pfizer, Novartis, and Sanofi-Aventis.