Nicholas G Kounis, Christos Gogos, Cesare de Gregorio, Ming-Yow Hung, Sophia N Kounis, Efthymios P Tsounis, Stelios F Assimakopoulos, Soheila Pourmasumi, Virginia Mplani, George Servos, Periklis Dousdampanis, Panagiotis Plotas, Marina A Michalaki, Grigorios Tsigkas, Gerasimos Grammatikopoulos, Dimitrios Velissaris, Ioanna Koniar
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is caused by the novel severe acute respiratory coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2). Several explanations for the development of cardiovascular complications during and after acute COVID-19 infection have been hypothesized. The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by SARS-CoV-2, has emerged as one of the deadliest pandemics in modern history. The myocardial injury in COVID-19 patients has been associated with coronary spasm, microthrombi formation, plaque rupture, hypoxic injury, or cytokine storm, which have the same pathophysiology as the three clinical variants of Kounis syndrome...
January 3, 2024: Balkan Medical Journal