Covid And Congenital Heart Disease. This includes patients with life long diseases such as congenital heart disease chd emergencies such as acute coronary syndromes patients with suspected or newly diagnosed cancer and many more. The impact of coronavirus disease 2019 covid 19 on patients with congenital heart disease across the lifespan.
This document aims to give an overview of relevant data and outline our pragmatic approach to disease prevention and management. There is a trend toward overgeneralization of heart disease particularly in the media. Fifty three chd patients median age 34 with covid 19 infection were reported at their center between march and july 2020.
Based on anatomy and additional physiological factors including symptoms.
Currently there is no data on congenital heart disease and coronavirus but doctors in china observed in covid 19 patients that many had coronary heart disease and heart failure. Due to the heterogeneity of achd and secondary complications risk profiles are however not uniform. We for example at the royal brompton hospital became a covid centre overnight. It has been noted that the covid 19 affects older adults and those with heart disease meaning cardiovascular disease cvd such as coronary artery disease and hypertension more severely.