Hyderabad: Some patients restored covid increasingly complain of palpitations, with doctors detecting the weakened heart muscle between other heart problems.
In the case of the previous Covid-19 variant, some co-morbid patients ended with heart damage and some died of heart disease due to Covid-19 complications.
The doctor said that even when the omicron variant was lighter, patients restored were at a higher risk of heart disease such as cardiomyopathy, blood clotting, palpitations, shortness of breath.
“Many restored patients complained about shortness of breath and palpitations.
The virus leads to inflammation of blood vessels which resulted in blood clotting in the Mathan medical center.
Speaking to the health discourse organized by the Heal Foundation, a national health group, Dr.
Mohit Gupta, Professor and Cardiology at the GB Pant Hospital, Delhi said that the virus could cause acute myocardial injury and chronic damage to the cardiovascular system.
“Covid can be proven to be fatal for patients who have suffered from the heart-related disease.
In patients restored, four prominent problems such as breathing difficulties, chest pain, fainting, weakness and heart damage are observed,” Gupta said.
In some cases, those who have underlying heart disease have observed the symptoms that were exacerbated.
“People face gastric problems because they often experience post-recovery heart burning.
Adding these symptoms such as decreasing blood pressure levels, high sugar levels, chest discomfort among others,” said Dr.
Sagar Bhuyar, senior heart, hospital Kamineni, LB Nagar.
Doctors recommend that immediately after recovery, people must take things easily for almost a month because those who start exercising strictly at risk of suffering a heart attack.
“For almost 60-90 days after recovery, people should not explore into severe activities.
They have to slow everything and start with a soft exercise regime.
Heartbeat needs to be monitored because many people also have complaints to have post-recovery arrhythmias,” said Dr.
Sadiq Azam, cardiology consultant at KIMS.