“Question-answer” with doctor-cardiologist Mets Antonina Mikhailovna
For a start, it’s worth talking about what this disease is. Coronavirus is an acute respiratory viral infection caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Affects the respiratory system, and in the worst case can lead to severe respiratory failure and death.
- How does COVID-19 affect the body as a whole?
The danger of any acute illness (to which the coronavirus can also be attributed) is that the whole body suffers. The general state of health is deteriorating, chronic pathologies, including heart problems, are exacerbated.
That is why people with severe chronic diseases, such as diabetes or hypertension, are among the most vulnerable group of the population. Next to them on this list are smokers, people with weak immune systems, people of the Asian ethnic group, people over 60-65 years old.
- What signals does the body give about heart problems?
If a patient with COVID-19 has complications in the form of pneumonia of varying severity or chronic pulmonary pathology (such as bronchial asthma or COPD), then there is an increase in pressure in the pulmonary circulation system (“pulmonary circle”).
As a result – pulmonary hypertension, problems with intracardiac hemodynamics. Shortness of breath, asthma attacks, decreased performance, the need for more frequent use of inhalers occurs or increases.
This is heart failure!
And if the disease progresses, then edema of the lower extremities occurs, the accumulation of free fluid in the abdominal cavity.
In the presence of such complications, a coronavirus or post-coronavirus patient becomes a patient of a cardiologist or general practitioner.
- What will the doctor do?
The doctor’s task is to improve intracardiac hemodynamics by choosing the right treatment and balanced nutrition!
It is the implementation of the doctor’s recommendations that will help reduce or even eliminate heart problems, stabilize blood pressure and, ultimately, improve the patient’s health and quality of life.
“Take care of yourself and your loved ones, take all precautions and be healthy!”❤️
Doctor-cardiologist
Metz Antonina Mikhailovna
