Mehrdad Sahranavard, Arash Akhavan Rezayat, Mohammad Zamiri Bidary, Alireza Omranzadeh, Farahnaz Rohani, Ramin Hamidi Farahani, Ebrahim Hazrati, Seyyed Hossein Mousavi, Mohamed Afshar Ardalan, Saeed Soleiman-Meigooni, Seyyed-Javad Hosseini-Shokouh, Zia Hejripour, Ehsan Nassireslami, Reza Laripour, Amirahmad Salarian, Abbas Nourmohammadi, Reza Mosaed
BACKGROUND: The newly emerged coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) seems to involve different organs, including the cardiovascular system. We systematically reviewed COVID-19 cardiac complications and calculated their pooled incidences. Secondarily, we compared the cardiac troponin I (cTnI) level between the surviving and expired patients. METHODS: A systematic search was conducted for manuscripts published from December 1, 2019 to April 16, 2020. Cardiovascular complications, along with the levels of cTnI, creatine kinase (CK), and creatine kinase MB (CK-MB) in hospitalized PCR-confirmed COVID-19 patients were extracted...
February 1, 2021: Archives of Iranian Medicine