Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Friday informed that he will undergo angioplasty at a hospital here after experiencing severe chest pain.
In April this year, the 70-year-old Congress leader had tested positive for COVID-19.
“Post Covid I was having health issues & Since yesterday I was having severe pain in my chest. Just got my CT done in SMS hospital. Angioplasty will be done,” Gehlot tweeted.
Post Covid I was having health issues & Since yesterday I was having severe pain in my chest. Just got my CT NGO done in SMS hospital.Angioplasty will be done.I am happy that I’m getting it done at SMS Hospital.I am fine & will be back soon.Your blessings & well wishes r with me.
— Ashok Gehlot (@ashokgehlot51) August 27, 2021
Angioplasty is a procedure to open clogged heart arteries. “I am happy that I am getting it done at SMS Hospital. I am fine and will be back soon. Your blessings and well wishes are with me,” he said.
Despite the fact that coronavirus is considered an illness of the lungs and many patients who contract the new Covid-19 experience cardiac issues.
Know-How COVID-19 Is Affecting Heart Even After The Recovery
Despite the fact that coronavirus is considered an illness of the lungs and many patients who contract the new Covid-19 experience cardiac issues.
According to early evidence, up to 1 in 5 patients with coronavirus have signs of heart injury irrespective of the fact that whether or not they had any respiratory symptoms. Though most of these patients already had underlying health issues like heart disease or high blood pressure, many otherwise healthy patients had also developed heart problems, including blood vessel injuries, blood clots, arrhythmia, strokes, and heart attacks.
The incidence of cardiac problems in patients is very high in patients who contract Covid-19.
Several types of research have been conducted which suggests that the extensive inflammation of the infection causes a possibility that the virus directly infects and damages the cardiovascular system, and this stress which is already there on the infection puts on the pre-existing heart conditions.
However, a new study has been published in the Journal of Emergency Medicine in mid-May that evaluated 45 percent of reports pertaining to coronavirus and cardiovascular complications. It was found that Covid-19 can cause lasting heart damages.
COVID-19 as a vascular disease:
Uri Manor, Assistant Research Professor at the Salk Institute in California said, “A lot of people think of it as a respiratory disease, but it’s really a vascular disease.”
“That could explain why some people have strokes, and why some people have issues in other parts of the body. The commonality between them is that they all have vascular underpinnings,” Manor added.
Similarly, also a paper has been published in Practical Pain Management by Dr Don L Goldenberg (MD), to show how long-range cardiac symptoms may show up in patients with or without pre-existing Cardiovascular disease even after COVID recovery.
According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Long COVID can happen to anyone who has had COVID-19, even if the illness was mild, or had no symptoms.