@article{ajmcr2021938,
author={{Hevroni, Gil and Cepeda-Mora, Diego and Mostel, Zachary and Lugo, Luis and McFarlane, Samy I},
title={Acute Decompensated Heart Failure in a Young Patient Infected with COVID-19},
journal={American Journal of Medical Case Reports},
volume={9},
number={3},
pages={163--166},
year={2021},
url={http://pubs.sciepub.com/ajmcr/9/3/8},
issn={2374-216X},
abstract={While patients with severe COVID-19 infection often have cardiovascular comorbidities, there is a paucity of literature outlining the potential of this novel coronavirus to trigger acute decompensated heart failure. To date, there is limited understanding of the pathophysiology of heart failure in COVID-19; some suggest decompensation is a result of an incident episode of myocarditis as seen with other respiratory viruses. Here we present a case of a 25 year old man with no known cardiovascular disease, who presented with acute decompensated heart failure found to have an ejection fraction of ten percent in the setting of COVID-19 infection and subsequently had multiple admissions for heart failure decompensation. An extensive work-up was performed and ruled out cardiovascular and rheumatological causes of heart failure, making COVID-19 infection a plausible etiologic factor for heart failure.},
doi={10.12691/ajmcr-9-3-8}
publisher={Science and Education Publishing}
}