Systemic Involvement of Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19): A Review of Literature

Manish Munjal; Samaresh Das; Nilay Chatterjee; Adarsh Eshappa Setra; Deepak Govil

doi:10.5005/jp-journals-10071-23498

Systemic Involvement of Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19): A Review of Literature

Indian J Crit Care Med. 2020 Jul;24(7):565-569. doi: 10.5005/jp-journals-10071-23498.

Authors

Manish Munjal¹, Samaresh Das², Nilay Chatterjee², Adarsh Eshappa Setra², Deepak Govil³

Affiliations

¹ Jigyasa Foundation, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India.
² Yeovil District Hospital NHS, Yeovil, Somerset, United Kingdom.
³ Institute of Critical Care and Anesthesia, Medanta The Medicity, Gurugram, Haryana, India.

Abstract

COVID-19 outbreak has caused a pandemonium in modern world. As the virus has spread its tentacles across nations, territories, and continents, the civilized society has been compelled to face an unprecedented situation, never experienced before during peacetime. We are being introduced to an ever-growing new terminologies: "social distancing," "lockdown," "stay safe," "key workers," "self-quarantine," "work-from-home," and so on. Many countries across the globe have closed their borders, airlines have been grounded, movement of public transports has come to a grinding halt, and personal vehicular movements have been restricted or barred. In the past couple of months, we have witnessed mayhem in an unprecedented scale: social, economic, food security, education, business, travel, and freedom of movements are all casualties of this pandemic. Our experience about this virus and its epidemiology is limited, and mostly the treatment for symptomatic patients is supportive. However, it has been observed that COVID-19 not only attacks the respiratory system; rather it may involve other systems also from the beginning of infection or subsequent to respiratory infection. In this article, we attempt to describe the systemic involvement of COVID-19 based on the currently available experiences. This description is up to date as of now, but as more experiences are pouring from different corners of the world, almost every day, newer knowledge and information will crop up by the time this article is published.

How to cite this article: Munjal M, Das S, Chatterjee N, Setra AE, Govil D. Systemic Involvement of Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19): A Review of Literature. Indian J Crit Care Med 2020;24(7):565-569.

Keywords: Acute respiratory distress syndrome; Bilateral predominant ground-glass opacities; COVID pneumonia; COVID-19; Elevation of cardiac troponins (cTnI); High rate of transmission; Multisystemic involvement of COVID-19; Neurological signs; Novel coronavirus; Respiratory system.

Publication types

Review