SARS-CoV-2 Mediated Hyperferritinemia and Cardiac Arrest: Preliminary Insights
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VasanthiDharmalingam P, Karuppagounder V, Watanabe K, Karmouty-Quintana H, Palaniyandi SS, Guha A, and Thandavarayan RA. SARS-CoV-2-mediated hyperferritinemia and cardiac arrest: preliminary insights. Drug Discov Today 2021.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-23-2021
Publication Title
Drug discovery today
Abstract
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), a pandemic that began in China, was first noted in December 2019. SARS-CoV-2 infects through the angiotensin-converting enzyme-2 (ACE-2) receptor and co-receptors. In the most severely affected patients, it can cause pneumonia and multiple organ failure leading to death. Reports describe high death rates resulting from cardiac dysfunction, a co-morbid condition in SARS-CoV-2 patients, while the primary cause and mechanisms remain unknown. Here, we attempt to review clinical reports of SARS-CoV-2 patients in order to provide insight into a possible mechanism that allows hyperferritinemia (the presence of excess iron-binding protein) to cause cardiac dysfunction in SARS-CoV-2 patients. Such insights are an important avenue towards understanding the mechanism of cardiac dysfunction in SARS-CoV-2 patients and developing remedies for the same.
PubMed ID
33493677
ePublication
ePub ahead of print
