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ArticleCardiology and therapy2021

Supplementary Therapeutic Possibilities to Alleviate Myocardial Damage Due to Microvascular Dysfunction in Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19).

Mihály Medvegy, Gábor Simonyi

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Article in Cardiology and therapy, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 36% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Mihály MedvegyCardiology Department, Flor Ferenc Hospital, Kistarcsa, Hungary. drmedvegy@hotmail.com.
Gábor SimonyiCardiology Department, St Imre Hospital, Budapest, Hungary.
Szent Imre Egyetemi Oktatókórház · HU

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Myocardial damage with a consequent rise in cardio-specific troponin level is a frequent phenomenon in severe cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Its causes are capillary endothelial cell dysfunction, associated carditis, low oxygenization, and increased sympathetic tone, which all worsen myocardial stiffness and microvascular dysfunction (MD). They lead to severe myocardial dysfunction, arrhythmia, acute congestive heart failure, and a significant rise in death cases. During COVID-19, no specific cardiological treatment is started. As adjuvant therapy, anxiolytics in COVID-19 are widely used, but not in all anxious patients who had been infected with coronavirus. Anxiolytics can be useful to moderate MD and immunosuppressive effect of anxiety. The favorable effects of trimetazidine (TMZ) and Coenzyme Q

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AnxiolyticsCoenzym-Q10COVID-19Microvascular dysfunctionTrimetazidine

Identifiers

PMID33811310
PMCPMC8018688
OpenAlexW3147134155

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