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World J Cardiol. Jul 26, 2022; 14(7): 392-402
Published online Jul 26, 2022. doi: 10.4330/wjc.v14.i7.392
Heart failure in general and cardiac transplant patients with COVID-19
Munish Sharma, Gowthami Sai Kogilathota Jagirdhar, Kalpalatha K Guntupalli, Rahul Kashyap, Salim Surani
Munish Sharma, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, United States
Gowthami Sai Kogilathota Jagirdhar, Department of Medicine, St Michaels' Medical Center, Newark, NJ 07102, United States
Kalpalatha K Guntupalli, Department of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, United States
Rahul Kashyap, Salim Surani, Department of Anesthesiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, United States
Salim Surani, Department of Medicine, Texas A&M University, Bryan, TX 77807, United States
Author contributions: Sharma M and Jagirdhar G did the literature search and manuscript preparation; Kashyap R, Guntupalli K and Surani S contributed in write-upkeep, editing, and revision of the manuscript.
Conflict-of-interest statement: None of the authors have any conflict of interest to declare.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: https://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Corresponding author: Salim Surani, FACP, FCCP, MD, MSc, Doctor, Professor, Department of Medicine, Texas A&M University, 8441 Riverside Pkwy, Bryan, TX 77807, United States. srsurani@hotmail.com
Received: February 25, 2022
Peer-review started: February 25, 2022
First decision: April 8, 2022
Revised: April 19, 2022
Accepted: June 24, 2022
Article in press: June 24, 2022
Published online: July 26, 2022
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Core Tip

Core Tip: The mini-review is composed of assimilation of guidelines and current literature recommendations for managing heart failure in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients. We discuss many important aspects of heart-failure in COVID-19 from epidemiology to post recovery rehabilitation.