Complicaciones cardiovasculares en pacientes covid-19

Abstract

Cardiovascular involvement in patients with Covid-19, without a history of cardiac pathologies, is associated with disease severity and even higher mortality. The pathophysiological mechanisms most clearly described are direct myocardial damage and the process associated with systemic inflammation. Cardiovascular manifestations are diverse and include acute heart failure, myocarditis, cardiomyopathies, acute coronary syndromes, arrhythmias, thromboembolic events, cardiogenic shock. METHODOLOGY: This work will be a compilation of information that is based on already published literature, with the use of journals that remain current such as Intra Med, PubMed, The new journal of medicine, SciELO, WHO, PAHO and other journals that maintain publications with good scientific evidence from the last 3 years, from 2019 to the present, in the Spanish, Portuguese andEnglish languages. All articles dealing with cardiovascular complications due to SARS- Cov-2 in patients without underlying chronic diseases will be considered. Patients with previous cardiac pathologies were excluded for this study. CONCLUSIONS AND DISCUSSION: The inflammatory response, the hemodynamic changes secondary to the viral process, as well as the hypoxemia caused by Covid-19; constitute mechanisms of negative repercussion on cardiovascular health. It is known that the best treatment is prevention, without neglecting home isolation measures, constant hand washing avoidsthese future complications.