Heart Matters

How Does COVID-19 Affect the Heart?

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Synopsis

Host: Alan S. Brown, MD, FACC, FAHA, FNLA Guest: Jennifer N. Avari Silva, MD While we know that the lungs are deeply affected by COVID-19, they’re far from the only organ to be ravaged by this disease. Dr. Richard Vander Heide, Professor and Director of Pathology Research at LSU Health, New Orleans School of Medicine, joins Dr. Alan Brown to discuss how he led a team of pathologists that performed autopsies on COVID-19 patients to discover the resulting cardiac changes.