id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-348222-pd0zzcue Ansari Ramandi, Mohammad Mostafa Does the novel coronavirus 2019 like heart more than the other family members of coronaviruses? 2020-05-11 .txt text/plain 1041 68 46 However, although the pandemic of COVID-19 has not yet ended, it seems that COVID-19 compared to the other coronavirus infections (the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome [MERS] and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome [SARS]) is more likely to target the heart. This scenario and the respiratory system involvement is common between Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and COVID-19. 5 There are also case reports presenting patients with a known cardiac problem who manifest with another irrelevant cardiac involvement for example patients with a history of non-ischemic cardiomyopathy or hypertension who have developed cardiogenic shock, in which the criteria of acute myocarditis have been fulfilled. Acute cardiac injury similar to those reported in COVID-19 has been described in SARS; however, the arterial or venous thrombotic events were more prevalent in these patients. Acute myocarditis associated with novel Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus ./cache/cord-348222-pd0zzcue.txt ./txt/cord-348222-pd0zzcue.txt