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    Acute Biventricular Heart Failure After COVID-19 Infection in an Orthotropic Heart Transplant Patient: A Case Report
    (Elsevier, 2021-05) Berg, Nicholas; Ilonze, Onyedika; Bajpai, Vatsal; Guglin, Maya; Rao, Roopa; Medicine, School of Medicine
    The cardiac effects of the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) include myocarditis, takotsubo cardiomyopathy, pericardial effusion, and cardioembolic events in the general population. The effects of SARS-CoV-2 in heart transplant patients are unclear. We describe a case of myocarditis in the transplanted heart that responded to methylprednisolone.