Specialist Expert of the Ministry of Health Yusif Nagiyev in an interview talks about post-shaped syndrome, about how to protect themselves from coronavirus, what to do patients with an increased risk of heart attack.
First of all, the expert doctor told how much patients with cardiovascular diseases are highly risk of infection with coronaviral infection: “It is patients who suffer from coronary heart disease, arterial hypertension, especially in combination with diabetes mellitus, chronic heart failure. a high-risk of the development of fatal cardiovascular complications. Some studies show that the risk of cardiovascular diseases, such as a heart attack or stroke, remains high even some time after recovery from the SARS-COV-2 infection. “
to the question, what is the mechanism of damage to the cardiovascular system at the Covid-19, Nagiyev noted that “according to foreign experts, damage to the cardiovascular system do not depend on the severity of the Covid-19 or the dates of recovery. According to Russian Cardiologists, every third patient hospitalized in the cardiological department, received heart problems after Covid. At the same time, symptoms often appear a few months after recovery. Covid-19 affects both the hematopoiesis system and the cardiovascular system. The virus is very toxic relative and very toxic and itself heart muscle. With coronavirus infection, aseptic inflammation associated with the effects of toxins often occurs – myocarditis. It can be focal, or can total the entire heart muscle, and it will cease to cope with its pumping function. As a result, heart failure develops. Myocardials are often accompanied rhythm disturbances, in particular atrial fibrillation, in rare cases It can provoke the development of life -burning ventricular tachycardia, which can lead to death. “