Heart condition linked with COVID-19 fuels Power 5 concern about season's viability

[Buckeye_Democrat]

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/29633697/heart-condition-linked-covid-19-fuels-power-5-concern-season-viability

Myocarditis, inflammation of the heart muscle, has been found in at least five Big Ten Conference athletes and among several other athletes in other conferences, according to two sources with knowledge of athletes' medical care.

This was previously found among "recovered" Covid-19 patients in Germany too!

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2020/07/30/covid-19-patients-suffer-heart-injury-months-after-recovery-study/5536249002/

Two German studies, published Tuesday in the peer-reviewed journal JAMA Cardiology, found heart abnormalities in COVID-19 patients months after they had already recovered from the disease caused by SARS-CoV-2.

The first study included 100 patients from the University of Hospital Frankfurt COVID-19 Registry who were relatively healthy adults in their 40s and 50s. About one-third of the patients required hospitalization, while the rest recovered from home.

Researchers looked at cardiac magnetic resonance imaging taken nearly two and a half months after they were diagnosed and compared them with images from people who never had COVID-19. The study found heart abnormalities in 78 patients, with 60 of those patients showing signs of inflammation in the heart muscle from the virus.

Do these conferences and schools want future lawsuits, or not?

[wcast]

1. A teenage relative of mine just ended up in the hospital with myocarditis.

Supposedly he doesn't have COVID but I don't trust that. I don't plan to be around anytime soon but the doctors tell him months of convalescence.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

2. I'm sorry!

Maybe he was previously infected? Did he have an antibody test?

I hope he'll be okay!

[wcast]

3. Thanks for the thought 😊

He was sick several days prior to the incident with symptoms similar to COVID.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

5. So young.

Maybe it will improve with more time?

I hate this administration so much!

[Blue_true]

13. The belief is that time and medication will help. But no one knows for sure. nt

[Buckeye_Democrat]

15. I sure hope they're correct!

Best wishes!

[Blue_true]

4. A starting Major League Pitcher is out for the season due to the same issue.

His problem was found on an MRI. He had and had recovered from COVID19 and was ready to start the season before the precautionary MRI was done.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

6. This stuff needs to get more news coverage!

It hasn't yet, at least not sufficiently imo.

[Ms. Toad]

7. The study indicating 75% heart damage in he 100 studied

was well-publicized.

It may be that no one listened, with all the other crap going on . . .

[Buckeye_Democrat]

10. Yeah, the news organizations have to cover...

... the latest idiotic things said by the resident-in-chief. Not that I mind too much if it means he'll lose, but his stupidity should be an established fact by now too.

[Blue_true]

9. That Pitcher is 24 years old and was perfectly healthy before covid19.

What will likely happen is some 20 year old college football star will fall dead on the field, and the autopsy will show that he had that condition and it went undetected. Then things will shutdown like a trap.

I believe that the NFL is headed for a major disaster. Their plan is to have a player testing positive sit out until he test negative. I read nothing about MRIs. MLB didn’t even call for them for the Pitcher, the team physician for the team that he is signed to had the MRI done to make everyone feel better, they were looking to see that his lungs were clear and found the heart condition.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

12. Yeah, football will surely be even worse...

... with all the close contact.

Not to mention their biggest guys might have heart issues already, carrying around all that extra weight.

If someone invents something like a mouthpiece with N100 filtration, that the players could wear pretty much constantly except for quick hydration breaks, then MAYBE it could work. It probably wouldn't even matter if they had exhalation valves for easier breathing if they all wore them.

Might as well just give up on it for now! The virus is setting the rules!

[Blue_true]

14. Yeah, the virus is in charge.

We are not going anywhere until we solve it. Even countries like New Zealand, that seem to control it, are in a box, they check everything and everyone coming into the country and are only allowing returning citizens back.

[nilram]

8. I hate MRIs

So, two more reasons to not get it!

[Blue_true]

11. So....,

You would rather not know about a condition that could cause you to drop dead in your tracks? You are a more brave person than I am, I want to know my risk factors. The thought of falling dead in my tracks is terrifying, not that it would matter for me at that point.

[nilram]

18. No, I'm not saying I wouldn't get one. I'm saying I hate doing so.

[Stallion]

16. Two College Players from Houston and Indiana Have Already Reported This Condition

[Buckeye_Democrat]

17. Thanks!

I didn't previously hear about those cases. Here's the Houston athlete's story.

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/hdn/hrlm/p/callback.html

As a result of the virus, I’ve had complications with my heart and I really don’t know the outcome or what’s in store for me in the future,” Williams wrote in a message posted on Facebook. “I just know that my life is more precious to me than football could ever be. I’ve decided to opt out of the 2020 football season due to these complications. I won’t take this year for granted. I’m coming back bigger, faster and stronger than ever.”