If you're a heart patient like me, I am sure you have been paying attention to this year's tumultuous rumble about how we are considered "high risk" individuals when it comes to COVID19. But what does this exactly mean? Are we more at risk to get it? Are we more vulnerable for complications if we do get it? How does COVID19 really affect the heart? Does it affect its entirety? The valves? The heart tissue? The pump function?
If you have just been diagnosed with heart valve disease, or any other type of heart affliction that requires surgery, should you go ahead and proceed with the surgery now? Wait till the virus passes? Wait till there is a cure or a vaccine?
If you do have a prosthetic valve, will it get infected faster and more severely from this virus, like your surgeon told you when you got it that bacteria might get it infected?
If you want answers to all of these questions and a lot more insight, I do encourage you to read this free e-book (or watch the webinar that produced it), made available by Adam Pick, the founder of the Heart Valve Surgery website and community. I have found information here about heart disease in times of COVID, and also answers to questions I had even before this virus appeared in the world, all the way back before my surgery which was more than four years ago.
Happy reading! You will not be disappointed.
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