Severe Sinus Bradycardia: An Unusual Cardiac Manifestation of COVID-19

J Investig Med High Impact Case Rep. 2021 Jan-Dec:9:23247096211013185. doi: 10.1177/23247096211013185.

Abstract

There has been an accumulating evidence of association between COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) infection and cardiovascular complications. We describe a case of a 58-year-old lady with a history of systolic heart failure and COVID-19 infection, who developed persistent symptomatic bradycardia, requiring pacemaker placement as unusual conductive tissue involvement of this novel coronavirus.

Keywords: COVID-19; Micra pacemaker; bradycardia.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Bradycardia / diagnosis*
  • Bradycardia / therapy
  • Bradycardia / virology*
  • COVID-19 / complications*
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Electrocardiography
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Middle Aged
  • Pacemaker, Artificial
  • SARS-CoV-2