Devastating presentation of mild COVID-19 infection: Dilated
Cardiomyopathy, multiple LV thrombi and embolic stroke in a young male
Abstract
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is a novel disease with multi-system
involvement, but majority of patients have pulmonary and cardiovascular
involvement in the acute stages. The cardiovascular impact of acute
COVID-19 is well recognized ranging from myocarditis arrhythmias,
thrombotic occlusion of coronary arteries, spontaneous coronary artery
dissection and micro-thrombi in small coronary vessels on autopsy
findings. We report a case of young male who recovered from probable
mild covid-19 infection presenting few weeks later with devastating
cardiovascular involvement with severe left ventricular (LV) impairment
due to non-ischemic cardiomyopathy, multiple LV thrombi and embolic
stroke.