Cardiovascular Complications in COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Management

Abstract

Pneumonia like the pandemic COVID-19 is a virus disease, first time came into light in December 2019 in the Wuhan city of China.  As of today, more than two million deaths from more than 210 countries have been confirmed. This disease has modeled a great threat to human mental health, physical health, and forcefully stuck the routine life with psychosocial consequences globally. The COVID-19 disease is caused by SARS-CoV-2 which leads to acute respiratory distress. The pathogenesis of the disease started from virus entry to the host cell where it controlled the cellular system of the patient directly or indirectly. Population having cardiovascular, immunosuppressive, AIDS, and diabetes-like complications are thought to be very risky for mortality caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The correlation to Noncommunicable diseases like cardiovascular disorders and diabetes has led our attention towards the management of these diseases in the corona outbreak. Thus, this review aimed to better understand the threats modeled by the disease COVID-19 to the cardiovascular system, and the medical community should share their experiences promptly. It is concluded that both published research and real-time experiences shared on social media by world experts will act as a valuable tool and will help to learn more about this disease. Several preventive and therapeutic measures including drug therapy are suggested to manage the disease in comorbidities conditions.