Heart inflammation after COVID-19 is rarer than doctors originally thought.
For these people, surviving the coronavirus was the just beginning of fighting long-term symptoms and the road to recovery.Throughout the pandemic, several professional and collegiate sports leagues cancelled major events and seasons, in part to slow the spread of COVID-19, but also due to alarming reports of athletes developing a syndrome called myocarditis -- inflammation of the heart muscle -- following a COVID-19 infection.
"While the data on cardiomyopathy is preliminary and incomplete, the uncertain risk was unacceptable at this time," Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren wrote in anBut over time, it was discovered that the incidence appears to be much lower than first thought.
"Myocarditis is a very rare but serious complication of COVID," Bhave said."Patients with COVID myocarditis really should be managed at a high-level center [with the proper equipment], because these patients can go south fast."The new ACC guidance suggests that it is safe for athletes with no symptoms from COVID-19 to return to exercise three days following self-isolation.