Post Covid Cardiac Crisis: A Clinical Case Report

Millions of people were infected during the last Covid pandemic and imposed a long term effect to the survivors. Theincidence of post-COVID syndrome is estimated at 10–35%, while for hospitalized patients it may reach 85% amongthem nearly one-fourth have been diagnosed with cardiovascular complications. This case report is discussing about a32 years old young man who went to Japan for higher education but came back during covid pandemic and developedfever, cough, respiratory distress and hemoptysis with which he was admitted to Covid ward at Shahid Ziaur RahmanMedical College Hospital (SZMCH). Relevant investigations revealed that he was Covid positive along with pneumonia(>50% lung involvement) and Hypertension. After one week, when his condition was stable he was discharged fromhospital and advised for home quarantine for 14 days. But within 7 days of discharge, he again developed cough withhemoptysis, unusual fatigue, chest tightness and restlessness. That time he consulted with a cardiologist and physicianfound bilateral pneumonia along with dilated cardiomayopathy with Ejection Fraction 31%. After this devastatingcondition he was referred to Dhaka for better management and during follow-up we found his EF was 53% which wasfar better than the initial stage. Due to some rapid and prompt actions he survived but living with restricted activities.