Damage to the heart found in more than half of COVID-19 patients discharged from hospital (IMAGE)

European Society of Cardiology

Damage to the heart found in more than half of COVID-19 patients discharged from hospital

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MRI scan of damaged heart. Blue means reduced blood flow, orange is good blood flow. In this figure the inferior part of the heart shows dark blue, so the myocardial blood flow is very reduced and the black and white angiography, which looks directly at the blood vessels, shows that the vessel which supplies the blood to this part of the heart is occluded. The 3 coloured images are 3 different slices of the heart: the basal the mid and the apical slice.

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