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Case Reports
The Imperfect Cytokine Storm: Severe COVID-19 With ARDS in a Patient on Durable LVAD Support.
- Vinh Q Chau, Estefania Oliveros, Kiran Mahmood, Aditi Singhvi, Anuradha Lala, Noah Moss, Umesh Gidwani, Donna M Mancini, Sean P Pinney, and Aditya Parikh.
- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York.
- JACC Case Rep. 2020 Jul 15; 2 (9): 1315-1320.
AbstractAs health systems worldwide grapple with the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, patients with durable LVAD support represent a unique population at risk for the disease. This paper outlines the case of such a patient who developed COVID-19 complicated by a "cytokine storm" with severe acute respiratory distress syndrome and myocardial injury and describes the challenges that arose during management.© 2020 The Authors.
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