Why older patients are so vulnerable to heart damage from COVID-19 | Updating stroke care during the pandemic

COVID-19 enters a person’s heart cells by attacking certain proteins—and when more of those proteins are present, the virus has more chances to cause damage.

One high-volume stroke center shared its own strategy for adapting to these strange and unusual times. 

The team behind the analysis explored autopsies, toxicology reports, medication lists and prior health records for its research. 

Janet M. Shapiro, MD, thought she had recovered from a mild COVID-19 illness and was ready to get back to work. It turned out, however, that the virus wasn’t done with her quite yet.  

The proposed changes, announced August 12, are focused on easing a variety of requirements.

Researchers explored 43 years of data from the Framingham Heart Study.

Overall, almost half of all women who responded to the survey said their treatments were pushed back during the early days of the pandemic. 

Such sites generate significant income for hospitals, while also capturing a large portion of outpatient imaging, experts wrote in Academic Radiology.