id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-333121-kt6t41ff Kwenandar, Felix Coronavirus Disease 2019 and Cardiovascular System: A Narrative Review 2020-06-03 .txt text/plain 1923 123 39 At the end of 2019, a viral pneumonia disease called coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV2), emerged in Wuhan, China. Although this infective disease is mostly characterized by respiratory tract symptoms, increasing numbers of evidence had shown considerable amounts of patients with cardiovascular involvements and these were associated with higher mortality among COVID-19 patients. Cardiovascular manifestation in COVID-19 patients include myocardial injury (MI), arrhythmias, cardiac arrests, heart failure and coagulation abnormality, ranging from 7.2% up to 33%. [2] With the increasing number of confirmed cases and the accumulating clinical data, in addition to the common clinical presentation of respiratory failure caused by COVID-19, the cardiovascular manifestations induced by this viral infection has generated considerable concern. Although the exact pathophysiological mechanism underlying myocardial injury caused by COVID-19 is not fully understood, a previous report showed that in 35% of the patients infected, the SARS-CoV genome was positively detected in the heart. ./cache/cord-333121-kt6t41ff.txt ./txt/cord-333121-kt6t41ff.txt