Heart patients dont need to panic: Doc – The Tribune India

Chandigarh, March 15

Heart patients dont need to panic over Covid-19. They just need to take simple precautions to keep the infection at bay. This was stated by Dr Harinder Singh Bedi, Director, Cardiovascular Sciences, during an informative talk on Covid-19 & Heart Patients at Ivy Hospital, Mohali, today.

Talking about how Covid-19 can impact heart, Dr Bedi said: Viruses can attack the heart and cause viral cardiomyopathies in which the pumping chambers of the heart get weak and may fail to pump effectively.

He further said: The flu virus has been widely used in rabbit models to study cardiomyopathy so Covid-19 is possibly capable of damaging the pumping chambers of the heart. However, no such specific case has been reported so far. However, patients with heart abnormalities are more susceptible to heart failure if they become infected with Covid-19.

But that does not mean that people with heart diseases are more likely to contract Covid-19. It just means that those are more likely to have complications once they do get it, he asserted. TNS

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