Arrhythmias in COVID-19. Review uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • The coronavirus pandemic remains a major public health burden with multisystem disease manifestations. There has been an ongoing global effort to better understand the unique cardiovascular manifestations of this disease and its associated arrhythmias. In this review, we summarize the current data on incidence and outcomes of arrhythmias in the acute and convalescent period, possible pathophysiologic mechanisms, and medical management. Sinus bradycardia-reported in multiple observational studies in the acute infectious period-stands out as an unexpected inflammatory response. Atrial fibrillation has been noted as the most common pathologic arrhythmia and has been shown to be a poor prognostic marker in multiple cohorts. In the convalescent period, long-term complications such as postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome and inappropriate sinus tachycardia have been described.

publication date

  • December 15, 2021

Research

keywords

  • Atrial Fibrillation
  • COVID-19

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC8679991

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 85123268717

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.14797/mdcvj.1039

PubMed ID

  • 34992725

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 17

issue

  • 5