A monthly publication of the Brazilian Society of Cardiology and considered the main channel for the promotion of Brazilian cardiovascular research.
ISSN 0066-782X
eISSN 1678-4170
Rafaela Vale de Miranda Soriano
, João Manoel Rossi Neto
, Marco A. Finger
, Carolina Casadei Santos
Rafaela Vale de Miranda Soriano
, João Manoel Rossi Neto
, Marco A. Finger
, Carolina Casadei Santos
Introduction The disease caused by the new coronavirus (Covid-19), SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2), was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) on March 11, 2020. By analogy to others respiratory infections, mainly based on the 2009 pandemic of the influenza virus H1N1,, an increase in cases of pneumonia and progression to septic shock with acute respiratory distress syndrome was expected among recipients of solid-organ transplantation with Covid-19 in comparison with the non-transplanted population. However, immunosuppression […]
Keywords: Betacoronavirus; Cardiovascular Diseases/surgery; COVID-19; Heart Transplantation: Coronavirus; Inflammation; SARS-CoV2; Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome; Transplant Recipients