Drs Bob Harrington and Betty Raman discuss the cardiovascular impact and long-term sequelae of COVID-19, the potential biology behind multisystem effects, and ongoing research.

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Medium-term Effects of SARS-CoV-2 Infection on Multiple Vital Organs, Exercise Capacity, Cognition, Quality of Life and Mental Health, Post-Hospital Discharge

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eclinm.2020.100683

Prevalence and Impact of Myocardial Injury in Patients Hospitalized With COVID-19 Infection

https://doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.jacc.2020.06.007

Outcomes Among Confirmed Cases and a Matched Comparison Group in the Long-COVID in Scotland Study https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33415-5

Long COVID: Post-Acute Sequelae of COVID-19 With a Cardiovascular Focus

https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehac031

Cardiovascular Disease and COVID-19: A Consensus Paper From the ESC Working Group on Coronary Pathophysiology & Microcirculation, ESC Working Group on Thrombosis and the Association for Acute CardioVascular Care (ACVC), in Collaboration With the European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA)

https://doi.org/10.1093/cvr/cvab298

Infection of Brain Pericytes Underlying Neuropathology of COVID-19 Patients

https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms222111622

COVID-19 and Fat Embolism: A Hypothesis to Explain the Severe Clinical Outcome in people With Obesity

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32514077

Association Between Epstein-Barr-Virus Reactivation and Development of Long-COVID Fatigue

https://doi.org/10.1111/all.15471

Activation or Exhaustion of CD8⁺ T Cells in Patients With COVID-19

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41423-021-00750-4

Skeletal Muscle Alterations in Patients With Acute COVID-19 and Post-Acute Sequelae of COVID-19

https://doi.org/10.1002/jcsm.12896

Gut Microbiota Dynamics in a Prospective Cohort of Patients With Post-Acute COVID-19 Syndrome

http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/gutjnl-2021-325989

COVID-Vaccine Myocarditis: Rare, Mild, and Usually a Guy Thing

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/966244

Myocardial Injury Pattern at MRI in COVID-19 Vaccine–Associated Myocarditis

https://doi.org/10.1148/radiol.212559

Could Perturbation of Gut Microbiota Possibly Exacerbate the Severity of COVID-19 via Cytokine Storm?

https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2020.607734

Myocarditis Associated With COVID-19 Vaccination

https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.121.013236

COVID and the Athlete's Heart

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/945282

COVID-19 and the Heart: Is Cardiology Ready?

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/969206

Lung Abnormalities Depicted With Hyperpolarized Xenon MRI in Patients With Long COVID

https://doi.org/10.1148/radiol.220069

Long COVID Resource Center

https://www.medscape.com/resource/long-covid

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