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Many patients who are hospitalised with COVID-19 have raised troponin levels during the critical illness phase when the body mounts an exaggerated immune response to the infection.
Troponin levels were elevated in all the patients in this study who were then followed up with MRI scans of the heart after discharge in order to understand the causes and extent of the damage.Professor Marianna Fontana, professor of cardiology at University College London (UK), who led the research together with Dr Graham Cole, a consultant cardiologist at Imperial College London, said: "Raised troponin levels are associated with worse outcomes in COVID-19 patients.
In the most severe cases, there are concerns that this injury may increase the risks of heart failure in the future, but more work is needed to investigate this further.
Secondly, detecting the consequences of injury during convalescence may identify subjects who would benefit from specific supporting drug treatments to protect heart function over time.
"The findings of the study are limited by the nature of patient selection and included only those who survived a coronavirus infection that required hospital admission.